History
Kita Shinkawa Station opened on 5 February 1914 as a station on the privately owned Mikawa Railway. The Mikawa Railway merged into Meitetsu on 1 June 1941, and the station building was rebuilt in June 1947. Freight operations ended on 25 May 1977, and a new Kita Shinkawa substation opened on 16 March 1984. With the introduction of Meitetsu's centralised station-management system on 25 August 2005 the station became unattended, the Tranpass magnetic-fare system launched on 14 September 2005, manaca IC support began on 11 February 2011, and Tranpass service ended on 29 February 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kita Shinkawa is one of the few Meitetsu stations where trains run on the right-hand track instead of the standard left, the result of the single-island-platform layout where both directions share the same gauntlet through Chiryū-managed switches.