Chiryū Station

Chiryū Station 知立駅
Station Building
Location
Prefecture	Aichi (See other stations in Aichi)
City	Chiryū
Neighborhood etc.	Sakae 2-60
Postal Code	472-0037
(in Japanese)	愛知県知立市栄二丁目６０番地
History
Year opened	1923
Former name	Higashi-Chiryū Station
Present name since	1959
Rail services
Operator(s)	Nagoya Railroad
Line(s)	Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line Mikawa Line
Statistics	5,677,718[1] passengers/year 2006
Small bus terminal at this station

Chiryū Station (知立駅, Chiryū-eki^?) is a railway station operated by Meitetsu on both the Mikawa Line and Nagoya Main Lines, located in Chiryū, Aichi Prefecture Japan. It is located 41.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi Station and is the terminus of the Mikawa Line.

History

The predecessor Chiryū Station was opened on April 1, 1923 as Shin-Chiryū Station (新知立駅, Shin-Chiryū-eki^?) on the privately-owned Aichi Electric Railway Company, but soon merged with nearby Chiryū Station (知立駅, Chiryū-eki^?) on the Mikawa Railway later that year. Although the station was the same, the Aichi Railway side was renamed Higashi-Chiryū Station (東知立駅, Higashi-Chiryū-eki^?). The Aichi Electric Railway Company was taken over by Meitetsu on August 1, 1935 (becoming the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, and the Mikawa Railway on June 1, 1941. A new station building was completed later the same year. The station was relocated to its present location on April 1, 1959 and named Chiryū Station, with the former Chiryū Station becoming Mikawa Chiryū Station (三河知立駅, Mikawa Chiryū-eki^?).

Lines

• Nagoya Railroad
  • Nagoya Main Line
  • Mikawa Line

Layout

Platforms

2	■Meitetsu Mikawa Line	For Kariya and Hekinan
	■Meitetsu Mikawa Line	For Toyota-shi and Sanage
3	■Meitetsu Mikawa Line	For Kariya and Hekinan
	■Meitetsu Mikawa Line	For Toyota-shi and Sanage
4	■Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	For Meitetsu-Nagoya, Meitetsu-Gifu, and Inuyama
	■Meitetsu Mikawa Line	For Kariya and Hekinan
5	■Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	For Meitetsu-Nagoya, Meitetsu-Gifu, and Inuyama
6	■Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	For Higashi-Okazaki, Toyohashi, and Toyokawa-Inari

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Higashi-Okazaki		Rapid Limited Express (快速特急)		Jingū-mae
Shin-Anjō		Limited Express (特急)		Jingū-mae
Shin-Anjō		Rapid Express (快速急行)		Zengo
Shin-Anjō		Express (急行)		Zengo
Shin-Anjō		Semi Express (準急)		Toyoake
Ushida		Local (普通)		Hitotsugi
Meitetsu Mikawa Line
Mikawa-Chiryū		-	Shigehara

See Also

• Media related to Chiryū Station at Wikimedia Commons

References

1. ^ "第10章　運輸・通信 （平成20年度刊愛知県統計年鑑） [Statistics of Aichi in Year 20 of the Heisei Era]" (in Japanese). Aichi Prefecture. 2008. http://www.pref.aichi.jp/0000022354.html. Retrieved 30 November 2010. 

External Links

• Official web site (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°00′22″N 137°02′25″E / 35.0059738°N 137.0403457°E / 35.0059738; 137.0403457