Iwakura (Aichi)

Weekday departures: 180/day · Sat & holiday departures: 177/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:19 / 23:40

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (26)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Meitetsu Inuyama Line: Ishibotoke ⇄ Taisanji (Aichi)

Iwakura Station opened on 6 August 1912 in Iwakura, Aichi Prefecture, as the junction of the Ichinomiya Line and the Inuyama Line. The Komaki Line, connecting to Komaki, opened from this station on 23 September 1920. On 12 August 1941 the section of the Ichinomiya Line south of Iwakura was absorbed into the Inuyama Line, and on 16 May 1948 the Komaki Line was renamed the Iwakura Branch Line when a new Komaki Line was created from the former Ōzone Line branch. Freight service ended in fiscal 1963, the Iwakura Branch closed on 26 April 1964, and the Ichinomiya Line itself closed on 25 April 1965. On 11 September 1965 a four-storey station building opened on the east side, housing the ticket gates, restaurants, Meitetsu staff dormitories, and apartments. Limited expresses other than seat-reserved specials began stopping from 25 December 1970. On 9 March 1985 the ticket gates and concourse were relocated underground and the track layout reworked, lengthening the platforms to take eight-car trains; automatic ticket gates were installed in May 1987, and the redevelopment building Sakurando Iwakura opened with platform elevators in October 2009. The Manaca IC card came into service on 11 February 2011, replacing the older Tranpass system on 29 February 2012.

Iwakura had long been the busiest station on the Inuyama Line, but in recent years ridership has fallen and Kōnan Station has overtaken it into the second position; in FY 2021 it briefly dropped to third place after also being passed by Nishiharu Station.