Shigehara

Weekday departures: 110/day · Sat & holiday departures: 109/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:48 / 23:47

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (8)

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 Mikawa Line: Chiryuu ⇄ Kariya

Shigehara Station serves the Meitetsu Mikawa Line in Chiryū, Aichi, 2.2 kilometres from Chiryū Station. It opened on 6 April 1923 as a temporary stop on the privately owned Mikawa Railway that operated only for the local Kōbō-en-nichi festival days. The line was electrified on 5 February 1926, and at the same time the stop was upgraded to a permanent station. The Mikawa Railway was absorbed by Meitetsu on 1 June 1941. The Chiryū-to-Shigehara segment was double-tracked on 11 April 1976, the station became unattended on 22 December 1979, and a new station building was completed in September 2005 under Meitetsu's centralised management system run from Chiryū.

The nearest station to Aisin's head office and Kariya plant is in fact Shigehara Station rather than Kariya Station, and the double-track section between this station and Kariya Station carried a timetable so sparse that, even in the era before the line was elevated, trains passed each other on it only on the three services in the early morning on holidays.