Sakae (Aichi)

History

Sakae Station opened on 15 November 1957 as Sakaemachi Station, the terminus of the Nagoya Municipal Subway's No. 1 Line (later renamed the Higashiyama Line); the new underground line replaced the surface trams that had previously run above it. On 15 June 1960 it became a through station with the extension to Ikeshita. The No. 2 Line (later the Meijō Line) reached the station on 15 October 1965, creating an interchange, and the station was renamed Sakae on 1 June 1966. Platform-screen doors were activated on the Higashiyama Line in November 2015 and on the Meijō Line in August 2020.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

On 16 August 1983 a fire broke out in a substation inside Sakae Station and burned for more than three hours, killing two firefighters and halting trains.