Timetable information
Weekday departures: 289/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 280/day in the available timetable data
Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:17 / 23:58
Busiest hour in the available data: 15:00–16:00 (21)
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 Nagoya Main Line
Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:
- Meitetsu Bisai Line: timetable covers only part of the line
Adjacent stations
- Meitetsu Bisai Line: Nishi-Ichinomiya ⇄ Kannonji
- Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line: Imaise ⇄ Myokoji
Location
History
Originally opened on 24 January 1900 as Ichinomiya Station of the Bisai Railway — the predecessor of today's Bisai Line — and renamed Shin-Ichinomiya within fiscal 1900. The Bisai Railway opened the Shin-Ichinomiya - Kokufunomiya section on 15 February 1924, and on 3 February 1928 the Nagoya-direction main line was through-connected from Kokufunomiya, joining Ichinomiya to Nagoya. The April 1935 opening of the Nagoya - Gifu line (today's Meitetsu Main Line) completed the Meigi link. The Soto Line (later the Okoshi Line) reached the station in December 1930, then was withdrawn in December 1952 when the Bisai Line voltage was raised to 1500 V. Freight handling and JNR interchange ceased on 10 February 1966, automated faregates were installed in May 1987, and a temporary station building was used from 26 March 1989 during elevation works. Main-line elevation was completed on 21 February 1993, separating the gates from JR's Owari-Ichinomiya Station; full elevation of both lines was achieved by July 1995 and the whole continuous-grade-separation project was finished in March 1996. The station was renamed Meitetsu-Ichinomiya on 29 January 2005. The manaca IC card was introduced on 11 February 2011.
Notes
Meitetsu-Ichinomiya is an elevated station with two ten-car island platforms serving four tracks; the parking lot directly above is integrated with the station. Three faregates are provided — the main central gate on the first floor with a staffed window, an unattended south gate on the mezzanine, and an unattended parking-lot gate on the fourth floor — served by three elevators and seven escalators. The adjacent JR Owari-Ichinomiya Station is reached by an east–west public passage beneath the viaduct. Track 1 serves the Bisai Line, with Morikami/Tsushima trains using the Nagoya end and Okumachi/Tamanoi trains using the Gifu end; home and shunt signals placed mid-platform allow both directions to be dispatched at once, and trains for the two directions stand ready to depart together twice an hour. On the Nagoya Main Line, track 2 handles Gifu-bound (down) trains and track 4 Nagoya-bound (up) trains, while track 3 is used for terminating trains or for up-direction express–local connections. A pocket track at the Gifu end is used for car storage.
Sources
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Asturio Cantabrio · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-22