Kasugai (JR Central)

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Kasugai Station opened on 16 December 1927 as Toriimatsu Station, a citizen-petitioned stop on the Chuo Main Line midway between Katsugawa and Kozoji. Locals in the village of Toriimatsu had donated the station land to win Railway Ministry approval the previous year. The station was renamed Kasugai on 1 May 1946, three years after a wartime municipal merger created the present city. It passed to JR Central at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways and to JR Freight as a depot serving the adjacent Oji Paper mill. A new elevated station building with a north-south pedestrian concourse opened on 30 October 2016.

The freight spur that still serves the Oji Paper mill beside the station dates from around 1953, when the mill began operating, and is said to be a conversion of the branch that once served the Imperial Japanese Army's Toriimatsu arsenal plant — the factory that built the Type 100 submachine gun, and on whose site the mill now stands.