Kanayama (Aichi)

Known weekday departures: 1,225/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 1,179/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:15 / 24:04 (00:04 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (90)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Chuo Main Line: no timetable data
• Tokaido Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines
• Meiko Line: no timetable data
• Meijo Line: no timetable data

• Chuo Main Line: Nagoya
• Tokaido Main Line: Otobashi ⇄ Atsuta
• Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line: Sanno (Aichi) ⇄ Jingu-mae

Meitetsu opened the first station in the area on 1 September 1944, as an intermediate stop on a new east-west connecting line. Nagoya's war-damage reconstruction plan made Kanayama a subcentre, and in March 1947 a railway reconstruction planning committee resolved on the layout of a comprehensive station. The Chuo Main Line station opened on 25 January 1962, and the subway station on 30 March 1967, initially as a terminus. On 9 July 1989, ahead of the World Design Exposition, the stations were unified as Kanayama Sogo Station: Meitetsu's Kanayamabashi Station moved to the present site and became Kanayama, and a new Tokaido Main Line station opened. Three operators run five lines, making it a terminal second only to Nagoya Station.

As of 2021, automated announcements pronounce the name Kanayama one way on Meitetsu and another on JR Central and the subway, and a dialect researcher regards the Meitetsu version as the traditional local pronunciation and the other as a modern variant that is easier to say.