Station

Nihonrain-Imawatari

日本ライン今渡

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Nihonrain-Imawatari
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 134/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 133/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:29 / 24:10 (00:10 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (9)


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).

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Location

History

Nihon Rhine Imawatari Station opened as Imawatari Station on 24 April 1925 as the terminus of the Meitetsu Imawatari Line (now part of the Hiromi Line) and served as the gateway to Nihon Rhine river cruises along the Kiso. Freight services ended in 1961, and the station was renamed Nihon Rhine Imawatari on 10 November 1969. The original station building was dismantled in 1974 and moved to the Meiji Mura open-air museum in Inuyama. A second station building entered service on 26 January 1977, with an adjoining commercial station complex completed on 2 March that year. The current third-generation building was completed on 21 September 2006 and the station was de-staffed under centralised remote management. Manaca IC fares became usable on 11 February 2011.

Notes

The 1925 original station building survives at the Meiji Mura open-air museum in Inuyama, where it serves as the Tokyo Station for the museum's preserved steam locomotive.

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