Ōbu

Weekday departures: 261/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 261/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:39 / 24:22

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (16)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Tōkaidō Main Line: Kyōwa ⇄ Aizuma

Ōbu Station is a Tōkaidō Main Line junction in Ōbu, Aichi Prefecture, operated by JR Central and located 346.5 kilometres from Tokyo Station; it is also the starting point of the 14.3-kilometre Taketoyo Line. The station opened on 10 September 1887 as an intermediate stop when the government railway extended its trunk line through the area, then became a branching station on 1 September 1888 when service from Hamamatsu reached here. The Taketoyo branch was formally separated and renamed Taketoyo Line in 1909. The second-generation station building dates from 1 September 1978, JR Central took over at privatisation in 1987, automated gates were installed in 1992, TOICA service began on 25 November 2006, and electrification of the Taketoyo Line through to Taketoyo was completed on 1 March 2015. Station numbers CA60 and CE00 were assigned in March 2018.

On the curving track east of the station the Taketoyo branch runs straight south while the Tōkaidō Main Line bends to the southeast — a layout that reveals the construction order: the Nagoya-to-Taketoyo line was completed first, with the Okazaki-direction trunk line stitched in later.