Kitayama (Aichi)

Weekday departures: 257/day · Sat & holiday departures: 225/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:25 / 24:04 (00:04 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (22)

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 Seto Line: Omori-Kinjogakuin-mae ⇄ Obata (Aichi)

Kitayama Station opened on 1 July 1927 at Kitayama 2-chōme, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, with a wooden single-storey station building; the site had long carried an electrical substation, and the Kitayama signal point was established there at an unrecorded date, but there had been no station. On 6 March 1964 a four-storey reinforced-concrete station complex was completed next to the inspection yard on the east side, its ground floor serving as the station building; the block also housed the line's traffic-control office and crew depot together with a Meitetsu-affiliated supermarket (Meitetsu Shopping, later Meitetsu Pare). The station was promoted to a Kyūkō stop on 20 August 1978, after the line was extended into the new Sakaemachi terminus. Automatic ticket gates were installed in March 1984. The adjacent Kitayama Inspection Yard (opened in 1946 to replace the war-burned Ōzone Works) was closed on 30 June 2007. The Manaca IC card came into service on 11 February 2011, Tranpass operation ended on 29 February 2012, and the elevation of the 1.9 km Obata–Ōmori-Kinjōgakuin-mae section gradually relocated the platforms — first the down platform on 17 September 2016, then the up platform on 17 March 2018, both moved east to temporary positions. The up tracks were transferred to the elevated alignment on 19 March 2022 and the down tracks on 26 July 2025, completing the elevation work and removing eight level crossings around the station; the station became fully unstaffed from the same date.

From 1946 to 30 June 2007 the Kitayama Inspection Yard adjoined the station; established to replace the Ōzone Works, which had burned down in the war, it performed daily, monthly, train and accident inspections for all Seto Line rolling stock. Even after its 2007 closure, when the work moved to the newly built Owari-Asahi yard, the crew section based at the station (the former Kitayama crew depot) means crews still change here, and a number of early-morning and late-night trains still start or terminate at Kitayama.