History
Tsurumai Station opened on 6 September 1928 as a temporary stop named Tsurumai-Kōen ("Tsurumai Park") Station on the Japanese Government Railways' Chūō Main Line, established to serve a Nagoya enthronement-commemoration exhibition held in the adjacent park, and was closed on 1 December the same year. Local petitioning by Tsurumai Park merchants and residents — who donated about 800 square metres of land and contributed roughly ¥23,000 toward construction — led to the station's permanent revival as Tsurumai Station on 21 April 1937. The Kanayama – Chikusa section through the station was elevated and freight handling discontinued in January 1962, then double-tracked in September of the same year. The station passed to JR Central at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, became a rapid-train stop in October 1997, and gained TOICA IC-card service on 25 November 2006. The underground Nagoya Municipal Subway Tsurumai Line station opened on 18 March 1977 and added platform-screen doors on 7 July 2025. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 (JR: CF02; subway: T10).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
JR Tsurumai Station's 2017 fiscal-year daily ridership was 19,892 (boarding only, per the English Wikipedia article); the Nagoya Subway portion averaged 14,234 boarding passengers daily in the same period.