Chiryū Station

Chiryū Station
知立駅
Station Building
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Chiryū
Neighborhood etc. Sakae 2-60
Postal code472-0037
(in Japanese)愛知県知立市栄二丁目60番地
History
Year opened 1959
Rail services
Operator(s) Nagoya Railroad
Line(s) Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Mikawa Line
Statistics 5,677,718[1] passengers/year 2006
Small bus terminal at this station

Chiryū Station (知立駅 Chiryū-eki) is a railway station operated by Meitetsu on both the Mikawa Line and Nagoya Main Lines, located in Chiryū, Aichi Prefecture Japan. It is located 41.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi Station and is the terminus of the Mikawa Line.

History

The predecessor Chiryū Station was opened on April 1, 1923, as Shin Chiryū Station (新知立駅 Shin-Chiryū-eki) on the privately owned Aichi Electric Railway Company, but soon merged with nearby Chiryū Station (知立駅 Chiryū-eki) on the Mikawa Railway later that year. The Aichi Electric Railway Company was taken over by Meitetsu on August 1, 1935, becoming the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, and the Mikawa Railway on June 1, 1941. Shin Chryū Station merged with the Chiryū Station (Main Line Side).

New station building was completed April 1, 1959, and named Chiryū Station, with the former Chiryū Station becoming Higashi Chiryū Station (東知立駅 Higashi-Chiryū-eki) (Main Line Side) and Mikawa Chiryū Station (三河知立駅 Mikawa-Chiryū-eki) (Mikawa Line Side).

Changes of the Chiryū Station

Lines

Layout

Platforms

2 Meitetsu Mikawa Line For Kariya and Hekinan
Meitetsu Mikawa Line For Toyotashi and Sanage
3 Meitetsu Mikawa Line For Kariya and Hekinan
Meitetsu Mikawa Line For Toyotashi and Sanage
4 Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line For Meitetsu Nagoya, Meitetsu Gifu and Inuyama
Meitetsu Mikawa Line For Kariya and Hekinan
5 Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line For Meitetsu-Nagoya, Meitetsu-Gifu, and Inuyama
6 Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line For Higashi Okazaki, Toyohashi and Nishio
Diagram of Chiryū Station's Tracks

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Higashi Okazaki   Rapid Limited Express (快速特急)   Jingū-mae
Shin Anjō   Limited Express (特急)   Jingū-mae
Shin Anjō   Express (急行)   Zengo
Shin Anjō   Semi Express (準急)   Toyoake
Ushida   Local (普通)   Hitotsugi
Meitetsu Mikawa Line (for Hekinan)
Terminus - Shigehara
Meitetsu Mikawa Line (for Sanage)
Mikawa Chiryū - Terminus

See also

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Coordinates: 35°00′22″N 137°02′25″E / 35.0059738°N 137.0403457°E