History
Kasadera began on 10 April 1942 as a signal stop serving the wartime ordnance plants of southern Nagoya, and was upgraded to a full station on 1 June 1943; at the height of the war it handled around 40,000 passengers a day. The original station was destroyed in the Nagoya air raid of 17 May 1945 and rebuilt in February 1949; a new building followed in May 1964 and an overhead concourse in April 1988. The connecting Nagoya Rinkai Railway opened in August 1965 and absorbed JNR's freight workings from May 1981. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation, the station passed jointly to JR Central and JR Freight; TOICA contactless ticketing began on 25 November 2006.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Kasadera is normally a local-only stop on the Tōkaidō Main Line, JR Central halts its New Rapid and Rapid services here on demand when events fill the nearby NGK Sports Plaza arena.