History
The predecessor of today's Chiryū Station opened on 1 April 1923 as Shin-Chiryū on the Aichi Electric Railway and merged the same year with the nearby Mikawa Railway's Chiryū Station. Aichi Electric was absorbed by Meitetsu in 1935 and the Mikawa Railway followed in 1941. A new combined station, the present (third-generation) Chiryū, opened on 1 April 1959, allowing the Mikawa Line to switch back onto the Nagoya Main Line; the old structures were spun off as Higashi-Chiryū and Mikawa-Chiryū. Continuous-grade-separation works begun in 2015 are now scheduled for completion in 2031, with the southbound Nagoya Line track raised to a new elevated platform in March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The roof pillars of the pre-2015 ground-level station were built from recycled rails, and at least one carried the legible inscription 'CARNEGIE 1897' from the American steelworks.