Kintetsu Nagoya Station
Kintetsu-Nagoya Station is an underground terminal station on the Kintetsu Nagoya Line. It is connected to the Nagoya Station and the Meitetsu Nagoya Station. The station serves the Meieki commercial area of Nagoya city, under redevelopment led by Meitetsu as of 2025. It is assigned station number E01.
The station was opened on 26 June 1938 by the Kansai Rapid Electric Railway, a subsidiary of the, as the terminus of its extension to Nagoya. The station originally had two bay platforms and three tracks. Due to an influx in the number of passengers, the station was expanded with two new platforms and tracks from 1964 to 1967.
History
Kansai Rapid Electric Railway, a subsidiary of the Ōsaka Electric Tramway, opened the section from Kuwana to what is now Kintetsu Nagoya Station on 26 June 1938 as the northern terminus of the Kintetsu Nagoya Line. The station at the time of the opening was named the Kankyu Nagoya Station. On 1 January 1940, the station was renamed to the Sankyu Nagoya Station upon the merger of the Kansai Rapid Electric Railway into the Sankyu Rapid Electric Railway. This name change was reverted on 15 March 1941, when the Ōsaka Electric Tram merged with the Sankyu Rapid Electric Railway to form the Kansai Rapid Railway. For a brief period, the Nagoya Line was connected with the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line. The Kintetsu Nagoya Station was linked with the adjacent Meitetsu Nagoya Station from August 1950 to September 1952. Using this connection, reserved trains from Kintetsu were able to reach Toyokawa Station near Toyokawa Inari via the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line and the JNR-operated Iida Line. Meitetsu trains, on the other hand, could reach Kuwana and Ise-Nakagawa. This link was disconnected due to changes in the Kintetsu Nagoya Line's rail gauge, and the construction of the Meitetsu Department Store.The station originally had two bay platforms serving three tracks, but they were not enough for the increasing amount of passengers after World War II. The ridership around 1955 was almost seven times higher than when the station opened The underground station, beneath the Japanese National Railways Nagoya Station, was surrounded by the Meitetsu Nagoya Station to the east and the JNR-owned plot to the west. The JNR allowed Kintetsu to use its land for the expansion in January 1964, and construction started in December of that year. The Nagoya Kintetsu Building, now named the Kintetsu Pass'e, was opened in November 1966. An underground concourse above the Meitetsu Nagoya Station connected the station to the commercial building. Additions of new platforms finished in stages by 1 December 1967, which added two more bay platforms and two more tracks. Transfer gates with the JNR's Nagoya Station opened on 1 April 1969. On 1 March 1970, the station was renamed to the current name.
Platform screen doors will be installed on the platforms facing track 2 and 3, which is planned to be completed by the end of March 2027. As a part of the redevelopments in the area, the Kintetsu Pass'e is set to be closed at the end of February 2026 and dismantled.