History
The station opened on 10 July 1933 as Minami-Narawa Station on the Chita Railway, in what was then Narawa-machi of Chita District. The Chita Railway merged into Meitetsu on 1 February 1943. A new bridge-style station building opened on 26 April 1993, after which the station was staffed again. After three rounds of local petitioning beginning in 1992, the station was renamed Aoyama on 29 January 2005 in conjunction with Meitetsu's broader rebranding for the opening of the Airport Line, with the local community covering about 16 million yen of the change-over cost. Special-rapid service was added in December 2008; with the timetable revision of 26 March 2011 all trains began stopping. Continuous-grade-separation work elevated the up line on 12 May 2012 and the down line on 16 November 2013, leaving the station with two opposed elevated side platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Although the local community first pushed in 1992 to rename Minami-Narawa to "Centrale Aoyama," Meitetsu balked at the roughly 85 million yen estimate it gave for system updates; the rename only went ahead in 2005 by piggy-backing on the company-wide station-name review for the Airport Line opening, reducing the local cost share to about 16 million yen.