is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

in Chikusa-ku,

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Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

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It was opened on . The station provides access to

Tōgan-ji is a Buddhist temple of the Sōtō Zen sect located in Nagoya, central Japan. History Originally built in 1502 by Oda Nobuyuki in memory of his father, Oda Nobuhide was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and magistrate of the Sengoku period known as ...

which includes the Nagoya

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, Nagoya's large statue of

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. The area near this station also includes the Nagoya-area

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Lines

* ** (Station number: H16) ** (Station number: M17)

Layout

Platforms

References

External links

* Chikusa-ku, Nagoya Railway stations in Japan opened in 1963 Railway stations in Aichi Prefecture {{Aichi-railstation-stub