History
Meitetsu-Nagoya opened on 12 August 1941 as the terminus of the Meigi Line (later the Nagoya Main Line, towards Gifu) — known then as the 'Shin-Nagoya' station — with two platforms and three tracks. On 1 September 1944 the East-West Connection Line opened between Jingūmae and Shin-Nagoya, allowing trains of the East Line to reach Shin-Nagoya from Jingūmae. The station was damaged in the 12 March 1945 Nagoya air raid and burned out entirely from an electrical fire on 12 December 1946. The West Line was raised to 1500 V and through-running with the East Line began on 16 May 1948; the combined line was renamed the Nagoya Main Line. A new station building opened on 1 April 1950, the Kintetsu connecting line was abolished on 20 December 1952, and in November 1954 the current 3-platform 2-track configuration was settled. The Meitetsu Department Store opened on 1 December 1954 and the full 10-storey Meitetsu Department Store and Shin-Nagoya Station building was completed on 27 July 1957. The station was renamed Meitetsu-Nagoya on 29 January 2005, manaca service began on 11 February 2011, and Transpass ended on 29 February 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Meitetsu-Nagoya is a 'through-type' terminus unusual for a major private railway, set within the underground Shin-Nagoya tunnel and built between the Higashiyama Line subway and Kintetsu Nagoya Line structures, leaving little space underground. The platforms therefore form an unusual 3-platform, 2-track sandwich layout where two side platforms flank one island platform between them, with one inbound and one outbound track. To handle traffic to many directions and large passenger volumes through this constrained layout, boarding methods, boarding positions and train-information displays are arranged in distinctive ways unique to the station. Each main lighted train-position sign at platform 1 and platform 4 is coloured to correspond to the next service to each destination — for example, on platform 1 'blue lamp + flashing bar' means 'a Gifu-bound train is approaching from this position'. Newspapers are dispatched here in the afternoon: real newspaper-handling chutes on the alighting platforms load each evening edition onto the trains. Despite the limited setup, three to four station-staff voice announcers (Japanese as well as English, Korean and Chinese real-time translations to a screen from 3 April 2026) work the platforms because timetable irregularities require non-automated handling.