History
Chikusa Station opened on 25 July 1900 with the state-run line between Nagoya and Tajimi, about 400 m north of its current position. Its line was renamed the Chūō West Line in October 1909 and merged into the Chūō Main Line in May 1911. A freight branch to Atsuta operated between 1918 and 1930. The station moved to its present site on 1 September 1961 and was double-tracked between 1962 and 1964. The adjoining Higashiyama Line subway station opened on 15 June 1960 with the extension from Sakaemachi (now Sakae) to Ikeshita. The JR side passed to JR Central at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and TOICA was introduced in November 2006.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 17 January 2011 the JR side trialled a new automated announcement system together with Kanayama in advance of the wider Chūō Line refresh, but a heavy snowfall and an unrelated equipment failure on the same day forced staff to fall back to simplified manual announcements throughout.