Chiryū Station

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Chiryū Station is a railway station in the city of Chiryū, Aichi, Japan, operated by Meitetsu.

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Lines

Chiryū Station is served by both the Mikawa Line and the Nagoya Main Line. It is 41.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Nagoya Line at Toyohashi Station and is a terminus of the Mikawa Line.

Station layout

The station has four island platforms and eight tracks, and consists of three floors connected by footbridges. The station is staffed on the north side.

Platforms

Platform 8 is located on Floor 2 while others are all on Floor 1.

History

The predecessor to Chiryū Station was opened on 1 April 1923, as Shin Chiryū Station on the privately owned Aichi Electric Railway Company, but soon merged with nearby Chiryū Station on the Mikawa Railway later that year. The Aichi Electric Railway Company was taken over by Meitetsu on 1 August 1935, becoming the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, and the Mikawa Railway on 1 June 1941. Shin Chryū Station merged with the Chiryū Station.
A new station was completed on 1 April 1959, and named Chiryū Station, with the former Chiryū Station becoming Higashi Chiryū Station and Mikawa Chiryū Station.

Future plans

Construction of a new elevated station has been in progress since 2015. Originally scheduled for a 2023 completion, the completion date has been pushed back to 2031 while the price of the project has increased to approximately from its original cost of. The tracks for each of the lines will gradually be moved to the new station structure further north on the Nagoya Main Line by approximately. When completed, the station will compose of three levels with the platforms on the Nagoya Main Line on the 2nd level and the platforms for the Mikawa Line on the top level.
The first tracks that were moved to the new facilities were the southbound tracks on the Nagoya Main Line, which were reassigned to platform 8 on the new elevated level on 21 March 2023. The northbound Nagoya Main Line tracks are to follow in 2026, the Mikawa Line tracks in 2027, all railway tracks are scheduled to be removed from the ground in 2030. The entire construction project is to be completed in 2031.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 33,102 passengers daily.