Wakabayashi (Aichi)

Weekday departures: 109/day · Sat & holiday departures: 107/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:42 / 23:39

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (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: Takemura ⇄ Mikawa Yatsuhashi

Wakabayashi Station is a Meitetsu Mikawa Line station in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, 6.2 kilometres from the line's terminus at Chiryū. It opened on 5 July 1920 as a stop on the privately operated Mikawa Railway, which was absorbed into the Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) on 1 June 1941. The station building was rebuilt in 1962, freight operations ended in 1965, and the centralised station-management system together with the Tranpass IC scheme arrived on 1 October 2003. The manaca IC card began service in 2011 and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 February 2021. A 2.2-kilometre continuous grade-separation project around the station moved trains onto a temporary alignment in March 2023 and onto an elevated alignment on 28 March 2026.

Until the 2026 switch to elevated tracks, trains at the at-grade Wakabayashi Station ran on the right rather than on Japan's standard left — an arrangement dictated by the position of the station's internal level crossing and adopted to protect boarding passengers reaching the island platform. It was carried over to the temporary station, and ended only when the elevated station opened with conventional left-hand running.