Meitetsu Nagoya

Weekday departures: 811/day · Sat & holiday departures: 756/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:22 / 24:06 (00:06 next day)

Busiest hour: 21:00–22:00 (65)

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 Nagoya Main Line: Sako (Aichi) ⇄ Sanno (Aichi)

Meitetsu-Nagoya opened on 12 August 1941 as the terminus of the Meigi Line (later the Nagoya Main Line, towards Gifu) — known then as Shin-Nagoya Station — with two platforms and three tracks. On 1 September 1944 the East–West Connection Line opened between Jingūmae and Shin-Nagoya, letting West Line trains run through to Jingūmae and connect there with the East Line. The station was damaged in the 12 March 1945 Nagoya air raid and burned out entirely in an electrical fire on 12 December 1946. The West Line was raised to 1,500 V and through-running between the two halves began on 16 May 1948; the combined line was renamed the Nagoya Main Line. A new station building opened on 1 April 1950, the Kintetsu connecting line was abolished on 20 December 1952, and on 25 November 1954 rebuilding and a track rearrangement produced the present 3-platform, 2-track configuration. The Meitetsu Department Store opened on 1 December 1954, and the full ten-storey Shin-Nagoya Station and Meitetsu Department Store building, with three basement levels, was completed on 27 July 1957. The station was renamed Meitetsu-Nagoya on 29 January 2005, manaca service began on 11 February 2011, and Tranpass ended on 29 February 2012.

Meitetsu-Nagoya is a 'through-type' terminus, unusual among the stub-end terminals typical of Japan's major private railways, and has sat inside the Shin-Nagoya underground tunnel since it opened. Wedged between the structures of the Higashiyama Line subway and the Kintetsu Nagoya Line, it has little underground room to work with, so the platforms take an unusual 3-platform, 2-track form in which one island platform and two side platforms sandwich a single down track and a single up track. To handle trains to many directions and very large passenger volumes through that constrained layout, boarding methods, boarding positions and train-information displays are all arranged in ways distinctive to the station. On the general-car boarding platforms (tracks 1 and 4) the boarding positions are separated by service group and marked by colour-coded andon-style boarding-position signs mounted above the central platform — on track 1, for example, a steady blue lamp with a flashing bar above it means 'this is the boarding position for Gifu-bound trains, and one will arrive shortly'. Newspapers are dispatched here in the afternoon, with chutes and other purpose-built equipment at the Toyohashi end of the alighting platform loading each evening edition onto the trains. Because services come and go every one to three minutes and delays force the order of arrivals to be reshuffled, announcements cannot be fully automated: staff make them by voice from booths nicknamed 'DJ booths', one for the up line and one for the down line, and from 3 April 2026 those announcements are translated in real time into English, Korean and Chinese and shown on monitor displays, with Japanese shown as well.