Moto Kasadera Station 本笠寺駅
A view of the station
General information
Location	Maehama-dori 7-3, Minami, Nagoya, Aichi （愛知県名古屋市南区前浜通七丁目3） Japan
Operated by	Nagoya Railroad
Line(s)	Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
History
Opened	19 March 1917; 107 years ago (1917-03-19)
Previous names	Kasadera (until 1943)
Passengers
2008	2142 daily

Moto Kasadera Station (本笠寺駅, Moto Kasadera-eki) is a railway station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line located in Minami-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is located 58.2 kilometers from the junction of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi.

History

Moto Kasadera Station was opened on 19 March 1917 as Kasadera Station (笠寺駅, Kasadera-eki) on the Aichi Electric Railway. On 1 April 1935, the Aichi Electric Railway merged with the Nagoya Railroad (the forerunner of present-day Meitetsu). On 1 June 1943, with the opening of Kasadera on the Japanese Government Railways Tōkaidō Main Line, the station name was changed to its present name.

Lines

• Meitetsu
  • Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line

Layout

Moto Kasadera Station has two island platforms.

Platforms

Adjacent stations