Nagoya Station (名古屋駅) is in Nakamura Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) runs the station. The Nagoya Rinkai High-Speed Railway and the Nagoya City Transportation Bureau also operate services here. Lines served: Tōkaidō Shinkansen.
History
Nagoya station opened on 1 May 1886 as Nagoya-ya station on the government railway, between Atsuta and the first Kiyosu station, now Biwajima. It was renamed Nagoya on 25 April 1887. On 28 October 1891 the Nōbi earthquake collapsed the first station building. In April 1892 a second building was set up. On 1 April 1895 the station was placed on the Tōkaidō Line. On 24 May 1895 the Kansai Railway opened its Nagoya station here. On 25 July 1900 the line that later became the Chūō Line opened as far as Tajimi.
On 12 October 1909 the lines were given names. The Tōkaidō Main Line ran through here, the Chūō Line ran toward Tajimi, and the former Kansai Railway line became the Kansai Line. On 1 February 1937 the station moved to its present site, with a third station building. Freight handling moved to Sasashima station. The platforms were rebuilt on an elevated track, and the Chūō Line was moved to the west side. The track spacing was widened so the line could later be changed to standard gauge. On 26 June 1938 Kansai Express Railway (now Kintetsu) opened Kintetsu Nagoya station. On 12 August 1941 Nagoya Railway opened Shin-Nagoya station, now Meitetsu Nagoya station.
On 19 March 1945 an air raid on Nagoya set fire to the station building. On 11 January 1946 a waiting room was opened for occupation forces only. On 15 March 1950 the down sleeper express Kii was in a collision at the station. On 21 July 1953 the line was electrified from Hamamatsu, and electric operation began here. On 15 November 1957 Nagoya City Subway Line 1 (now the Higashiyama Line) opened here. On 1 October 1964 the Tōkaidō Shinkansen opened at Nagoya, with a new Shinkansen platform.
On 1 April 1986 the south exit opened. The south passage had been used as a royal guest passage before that. On 10 September 1989 the Sakuradōri Line station opened. On 21 December 1989 the exits were renamed. The north and central exits became the Sakuradōri exit, the west exit became the Taikōdōri exit, and the south exit became the Hirokōji exit. On 30 November 1991 the Hayakawa bath, which was the only station bath in the country, closed. On 2 February 1993 demolition of the station building began. On 12 March 1998 an automatic ticket gate was installed at the Shinkansen gate. On 20 December 1999 JR Central Towers opened as the fourth station building.
On 6 October 2004 the Nagoya Rinkai High-Speed Railway opened the Aonami Line, which was built from a former JR Central freight branch. On 25 November 2006 JR Central began accepting TOICA. On 23 October 2008 the first train of the day on the Aonami Line derailed at the station, because its wheel stop had not been removed. On 5 February 2011 movable platform gates started on the Sakuradōri Line. On 1 July 2014 a temporary station, Nagoya Dome-mae, opened on the freight line, with diesel trains running from here. On 25 September 2014 heavy rain flooded the station from a nearby construction site, and Higashiyama Line services were stopped for a long time. On 9 March 2015 the Shinkansen platform barriers were completed. On 26 March 2015 the Shinano limited express stopped running west of here, so all limited express trains now started and ended at this station. On 12 March 2022 Chūō Line trains that had run through to the Tōkaidō Line were discontinued, and all Chūō Line trains now started and ended here. On 27 October 2022 Japan's first route map made of Lego bricks was placed near the south gate.
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