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Nagoya Station (Nagoya-eki) is a major railway station in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is one of the world’s largest train stations by floor area (410,000 sq. m), and houses the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central).
Much of this space is located in the JR Central Towers atop the station, as well as in underground concourses. The current station complex was completed on December 20, 1999. The station and the area around it is officially called Meieki in the Japanese addressing system.

The Nagoya twin-towered station is the tallest railway-station building in the world. The Takashimaya department store occupying the east side of the building and the two JR Central Towers rising above it. One tower is 55 stories high and houses offices, and the other is 59 stories high and houses the Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel.

The railway station itself however, is located on the 1st and 2nd floors of this building and it is quite easy to navigate.
Nagoya Station can be accessed from the 1st floor of the station building. Here you will find all the ticket offices, ticket machines and ticket gates. The basic structure of the station is fairly simple. There are two main exits with a Central Walkway running between them. On the east side of the building is the Sakura-Dori Exit, and on the west side of the building is the Taiko-Dori Exit. There are large clocks at either end of this walkway that make useful meeting points. The Gold Clock is at the Sakura-Dori end of the walkway and the Silver Clock at the Taiko-Dori end.

There are taxi ramps outside both of these exits. The majority of the city bus stops however, are on the east Sakura-Dori side of the station. The Me~guru sightseeing bus also departs from bus stop 8 which is just outside Nagoya Station’s east side Sakura-Dori Exit. Outside the west Taiko-Dori Exit you can find the JR Highway Bus terminal and ticket office.

There are five sets of ticket gates for the JR lines. This means you can quickly access the rail lines from any approach to the station building.
1. The Sakura-Dori Ticket Gates are on the north east side of the station.
2. The Hirokoji Ticket Gates on the south east side of the station.
3. The Central Ticket Gates are on the south side of the Central Walkway.
4. The Central North Ticket Gates are on north side of the side of the Central Walkway.
5. The Taiko-Dori South Ticket Gates are on the south west side of the station.
Right beside the Taiko-Dori South Ticket Gates are the gates for the semi-private Aonami Line.

There are two sets of ticket gates for the shinkansen tracks on the west Taiko-Dori side of the station:
1. The Shinkansen North Ticket Gates.
2. The Shinkansen South Ticket Gates.

There are also transfer gates for direct access between the JR lines and the shinkansen lines.
You can find ticket machines and ticket offices located close to all these gates.

JR Platforms
There are 12 platforms for JR lines at Nagoya Station, however these are numbered from 1 to 13 with no Platform 9.
The reason there is no platform 9 is that the 9th rail track takes only freight trains carrying cargo bound for Nagoya Port so it doesn’t need a platform for passengers.

Here are JR Platforms 1 ~ 13 with the train lines and limited express services they serve.

Platforms 1, 2, 3, and 4: Boarding for Tokaido Main Line services bound for Okazaki and Toyohashi.

Platform 4: Boarding for the Limited Express Shirasagi bound for Fukui and Kanazawa.

Platfroms 3, 4, 5 and 6: Boarding for Tokaido Main Line services bound for Gifu and Ogaki.

Platforms 7, 8, 10 and 11: Boarding for Chuo Main Line services bound for Tajimi, Ena, and Nakatsugawa.

Platform 10: Boarding for the Limited Express Shimano bound for Nagano.

Platform 11: Boarding for the Limited Express Hida bound for Gifu, Gero, Takayama, and Kameyama.

Platform 11, 12, and 13: Boarding for Kansai Main Line services bound for Kuwana, Yokkaichi, and Kameyama.

Plaform 12: Boarding for the Limited Express Nanki bound for Shingu and Kii-Katsuura.

Platforms 12 and 13: Boarding for the Rapid Mie service bound for Iseshi and Toba.

Shinkansen Platforms

Platforms 14 to 17 at Nagoya Station are shinkansen platforms and are accessed via separate gates.

Platforms 16 and 15: Boarding for shinkansen services bound for Shizuoka, Shin-Yokohama, and Tokyo.

Platforms 16 and 17: Boarding for shinkansen services bound for Kyoto, Shin Osaka, and Hakata.

Nagoya Subway Station can be accessed by stairwells just outside the Sakura-Dori Exit of Nagoya Station.
There are signs inside the station showing the way.

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