is an underground

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located in Tempaku-ku,

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, operated by the

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. It provides access to the Tempaku campus, the main campus, of

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History

Shiogama-guchi Station was opened on 1 October 1978.

Lines

The station is served by the

, is numbered T16, and is located 16.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at

Kami-Otai Station is a railway station in Nishi-ku, Nagoya, Nishi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The station is built over Route 302 (Japan), Route 302 and under the Higashi-Meihan Expressway, and it is a 10-minute walk from Otai Station on the Tōkai Tr ...

Layout

Shiogama-guchi Station has one underground

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. File:Nagoya-subway-T16-Shiogamaguchi-station-platform-20100316.jpg, Platform 1 and 2 in 2010

History

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Platforms

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