Timetable information
Weekday departures: 113/day · Sat & holiday departures: 111/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:35 / 22:32
Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (13)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Meitetsu Tokoname Line: Teramoto ⇄ Komi (Aichi)
Location
History
Asakura Station serves the Meitetsu Tokoname Line in Chita, Aichi, 16.4 kilometres from the line's starting point at Jingū-mae. It opened on 3 April 1923 as a station on the Aichi Electric Railway, which merged into Meitetsu on 1 August 1935. The station was made unattended in February 1967 but staff were reassigned in July 1975, and the tracks were elevated on 26 September 1982. A shopping arcade named Station Plaza opened beneath the elevated tracks on 23 June 1983. Limited expresses began full-time stops on 29 January 2005, confirming the station's role as the city of Chita's representative station. From 21 December 2024 it became a 'special-duty' station with staff present only from 07:30–12:00 and 13:00–19:30.
Notes
Muyama Shrine in front of Asakura Station is famous for a lion-dance ritual known as "Asakura no Hashigo-jishi" (Asakura's ladder lion dance).
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: ButuCC · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-06-09