The station has four island platforms and eight tracks, and consists of three floors connected by footbridges. The station is staffed on the north side.
The predecessor Chiryū Station was opened on April 1, 1923, as Shin Chiryū Station (新知立駅, Shin-Chiryū-eki) on the privately owned Aichi Electric Railway Company, but soon merged with nearby Chiryū Station (知立駅, Chiryū-eki) on the Mikawa Railway later that year. The Aichi Electric Railway Company was taken over by Meitetsu on August 1, 1935, becoming the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, and the Mikawa Railway on June 1, 1941. Shin Chryū Station merged with the Chiryū Station (Main Line Side).
A new station was completed on 1 April 1959, and named Chiryū Station, with the former Chiryū Station becoming Higashi Chiryū Station (東知立駅, [東知立駅] Error: {{nihongo}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help), Higashi-Chiryū-eki) (Main Line Side) and Mikawa Chiryū Station (三河知立駅, Mikawa-Chiryū-eki) (Mikawa Line Side).
Overview of track alignments surrounding Chiryū Station
Future plans
Construction of a new elevated station has been in progress since 2015.[1] Originally scheduled for a 2023 completion, the completion date has been pushed back to 2028 while the price of the project has increased to ¥79 billion (2021) (US$722 million) from its original cost of ¥61 billion (US$556 million).[1] The tracks for each of the lines will gradually be moved to the new station structure.[1] When completed, the station will compose of three levels with the platforms on the Nagoya Main Line on the 2nd level and the platforms for the Mikawa Line on the top level.[1]
The first tracks that will be moved to the new facilities will be the southbound tracks (currently serving platform 6), which will be reassigned to platform 8 on the new elevated platform. As of December 2022, the move is scheduled to take place on 21 March 2023.[2]
Construction work as of 2020
Overview of the construction site in 2021
Temporary facilities seen in 2018
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 33,102 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
^ abcd"知立駅周辺整備事業 まちづくりだより 2022年1月号" [Chiryu Station Area Development Project Town Development Newsletter January 2022] (PDF). January 2022. Archived from the original(PDF) on 31 July 2022.
^"名鉄，名古屋本線 知立駅付近の上り線を3月21日から高架線に切り替え" [Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line Inbound tracks near Chiryu Station will be switched to elevated line from March 21]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
^9-2 各駅乗降客数(PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Anjo City. 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
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