History
Kariyashi Station serves the Meitetsu Mikawa Line in Kariya, Aichi, 5.5 kilometres from the line's junction at Chiryū and close to the old Kariya castle town. It opened on 5 February 1914 as Kariyamachi Station on the privately owned Mikawa Railway, set up by town notables as a stop near the historic centre, outshining the rural Kariya Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line. The first wooden depot was replaced in 1931 by a reinforced-concrete art-deco building. After Kariya gained city status in January 1950 the station was renamed to its present form on 1 March 1952. The tracks were elevated on 14 December 1980 and the depot beneath the elevation opened as a Meitetsu Sun River shopping arcade in December 1982. The station became unattended on 11 August 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.