History
Kintetsu Nagoya opened on 26 June 1938 as Kankyū Nagoya Station (関急名古屋駅), the terminus of the Kuwana - Nagoya extension by the Kansai Rapid Electric Railway, a subsidiary of the Ōsaka Electric Tramway. The station was an underground station from the start, though only a temporary surface entrance was provided at opening. On 1 January 1940 it was renamed Sankyū Nagoya Station (参急名古屋駅) following the merger of the Kansai Rapid Electric Railway into the Sankyū Rapid Electric Railway. On 15 March 1941, when the Ōsaka Electric Tramway merged with the Sankyū Rapid Electric Railway to form the Kansai Rapid Railway, the station took back the Kankyū Nagoya name. On 12 August 1941 Meitetsu's Shin-Nagoya Station opened next door and the underground connecting line was prepared. On 1 June 1944 the company merged with Nankai Railway to form Kinki Nippon Railway, and the station was renamed Kinki-Nippon Nagoya. Direct trains operated between Meitetsu and Kintetsu (group charters only) from 4 August 1950 until 30 September 1952. The Nagoya Line gauge-conversion to standard gauge was completed on 27 November 1959. The Nagoya Kintetsu Building (today Kintetsu Pass'e) was completed in November 1966. A two-platform, two-track expansion completed on 1 December 1967, and the National Railway connecting gate opened in April 1969. The station took its current name on 1 March 1970. The PiTaPa IC card began service on 1 April 2007 with simultaneous ICOCA reciprocity. The platform 3 platform screen doors were installed on 20 December 2025, and the platform 2 doors are planned for FY2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kintetsu Nagoya is an underground bay-platform station with four platforms serving five tracks. JR Line/Shinkansen connecting gates, an underground gate, and a Meitetsu connecting gate (named the 'Meitetsu Connecting Gate' on the Kintetsu side; the 'Kintetsu Line Transfer Gate' on the Meitetsu side) are positioned at the head end of the platforms. From the centre of each platform, stairs and escalators rise to the middle-basement-first-floor of the Kintetsu Building (Kintetsu Pass'e), where the front gate is also located. Track 5 is preferentially used for limited-express departures and track 4 for arrivals; the hourly 0-minute Meihan-Kō express 'Hinotori' departs from track 5. Most originating limited-express trains deadhead between this station and the Tomida Inspection Depot. Track allocation rotates strictly: there are typically six limited-express services per hour, plus regular service. Through-running with Hanshin's Namba Line (since 20 March 2009) means the station is now standard-gauge-connected as far as Sanyo Aboshi or Sanyo Himeji, but there is no scheduled direct service.