Nagoya Station

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Nagoya Station (名古屋駅, Nagoya-eki) is a terminal railway station in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It formerly held the world record for the largest train station by floor area (410,000 m2), including JR Central Towers atop the station. The station services the Meieki (名駅) area in the Japanese addressing system, the commercial center of Nagoya. The station is adjacent to the Meitetsu Nagoya Station, the terminal of Meitetsu; and the Kintetsu Nagoya Station, the terminal of the Kintetsu Nagoya Line. It is assigned station numbers CA68, CF00, and CJ00 for the JR Central lines, H08 and S02 for the Nagoya Municipal Subway (NMS) lines, and AN01 for the Aonami Line. Nagoya Station was initially opened on 1 May 1886, as a station on an unnamed branch line extending south from the Tokyo-Osaka railway, which was originally planned to take the inland Nakasendō route. After the route of the railway line was revised to take the Tōkaidō route, the station became part of the Tōkaidō Main Line. Since its...

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