Kariya

Weekday departures: 384/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 383/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:34 / 24:31 (00:31 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (24)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Meitetsu Mikawa Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tokaido Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Tokaido Main Line: Aizuma ⇄ Noda-Shinmachi
• Meitetsu Mikawa Line: Shigehara ⇄ Kariyashi

Kariya Station is the gateway to Kariya, Aichi, jointly operated by JR Central (Tōkaidō Main Line, CA58) and Meitetsu (Mikawa Line, MU02). It opened on 1 September 1888 with the Hamamatsu-to-Ōbu segment of the Government Railways after Kariya merchants led by Ōta Heiemon won a stop on the route. The Mikawa Railway opened the adjacent Kariya-shin Station on 5 February 1914 and the two were merged on 10 November 1927. From the 1920s the area drew Toyota-affiliated industry — Toyota Bōshoku, Aichi Steel, Toyota Industries and later Denso — turning Kariya into a major industrial centre. The bridge-over-tracks station building dates from January 1989, and a 2019-launched programme will widen platforms, enlarge the concourse by half and add platform-edge doors by 2029.

Miyagi Michio died in a fall near Kariya Station on 25 June 1956.