Motojuku (Aichi)

History

Motojuku Station opened on 1 April 1926 as a station on the Aichi Electric Railway. With the 1 August 1935 merger forming Meitetsu, the station passed to that company. First-class interlocking relays were installed on 31 March 1961, freight operations ended in FY1965, and a down-side passing track was added on 21 August 1974 (the up-side track having existed since before the war). The station was elevated on 24 October 1992 in conjunction with widening of National Route 1, automatic ticket gates were installed at that time, the Tranpass system began on 15 March 2005, manaca IC service started on 11 February 2011, and Tranpass ended on 29 February 2012.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.

Notes

Motojuku was named to the second "Selection of 100 Chubu Stations" by the Chubu Transport Bureau, recognising its mountainside profile and its role as the gateway station to the former Nukata-machi area and to Kuragari Ravine within Honguzan Prefectural Natural Park.