History
Kakuōzan Station opened on 1 April 1963 on the Nagoya Municipal Subway's Higashiyama Line, in Chikusa-ku. The station replaced an earlier tram stop on the city's Kakuōzan tram line, which had operated from 1911 to ferry visitors to the Kakuōzan Nittai-ji Buddhist temple and was abandoned soon after the subway opened. Barrier-free works were carried out in 2004, ICカード manaca began operating on 11 February 2011, and platform-screen doors were activated on 14 December 2015. The east concourse and ticket gates lie below the tracks because of the road gradient and are closed in the early morning and at night.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1963 construction of the tunnel west of Kakuōzan to Ikeshita was the first use of a circular-cross-section shield tunnel for an urban subway in Japan, and laid the technical groundwork for subsequent Japanese shield-driven tunnels.