Station

Higashi-Kariya

東刈谷

Higashi-Kariya
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History

Higashi-Kariya Station opened on 24 December 1966 as a Japanese National Railways passenger station on the Tōkaidō Main Line, 338.1 km from Tokyo. With the dissolution of the JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to Central Japan Railway Company. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge and a staffed building equipped with TOICA-capable automated turnstiles. Station numbering reached the JR Central section of the Tōkaidō Line in March 2018, and Higashi-Kariya was assigned the number CA56. In fiscal 2017 it averaged about 5,468 boarding passengers daily.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Although the station opened only in 1966, it now handles more than five thousand daily passengers, reflecting the rapid suburbanisation of southern Kariya after the war.

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