A full loop
The purple Meijo Line (M) connects 28 stations around Nagoya. Kanayama, Sakae, Nagoyajo, Ozone, Nagoya Daigaku and Yagoto all lie on the ring. Choose any starting station and travel 右回り (clockwise) or 左回り (counterclockwise). A complete game types 29 station names: your starting station, the other 27, then your starting station again.
Keep the ring distinct
The line crosses the Higashiyama Line at Sakae and Motoyama. These two interchanges let Route Planner choose the appropriate side of the loop. The Meiko Line toward Nagoya Port is a separate route; its stations are not appended to this challenge. The mascot is a 2000 series train, with a stainless-steel body and purple belt beneath its dark cab windows. The station list uses the current names Nagoyajo, Atsuta Jingu Nishi and Atsuta Jingu Temma-cho.
Long-name practice
総合リハビリセンター（そうごうりはびりせんたー）mixes long vowels with a katakana loanword. ナゴヤドーム前矢田（なごやどーむまえやだ）needs a different long-vowel pattern, while 瑞穂運動場東（みずほうんどうじょうひがし）rewards steady mora-by-mora reading. Shorter names have traps too: 上前津 is かみまえづ, 新瑞橋 is あらたまばし, and 堀田 is ほりた. Try the opposite direction once the names feel familiar to avoid relying on a memorized sequence.
Line data
Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 名城線 — all 28 stops of it.
- Operator
- Nagoya Municipal Subway
- Line symbol
- M
- Stations
- 28
- Shape
- Loop line
- Termini
- No terminus — the loop returns to 金山
How much typing is this?
Typing every station name on this line takes 327 keystrokes, an average of 11.7 per station. The longest name is 熱田神宮伝馬町 (atsuta-jingu-temma-cho) at 21 keystrokes; the shortest is 栄 (sakae) at 5. Those counts come from running each name's kana through the game's own romaji engine, so they are what your fingers actually do — not the length of the printed spelling.
Along the way: 1 names contain a small っ, which doubles the next consonant; 7 contain a small ゃ, ゅ or ょ, where the engine accepts both the Hepburn and Kunrei spellings (sha or sya, shu or syu); and 2 end in ん, whose trailing n folds into whatever comes next rather than standing alone.
Where you can change trains
2 of the 28 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.
Every station on the line
All 28 stations in order, with the official station number, the name in kanji, the kana the typing is derived from, and its Hepburn romaji.
| # | No. | Station | Kana | Romaji |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M01 | 金山 | かなやま | kanayama |
| 2 | M28 | 西高蔵 | にしたかくら | nishi-takakura |
| 3 | M27 | 熱田神宮西 | あつたじんぐうにし | atsuta-jingu-nishi |
| 4 | M26 | 熱田神宮伝馬町 | あつたじんぐうてんまちょう | atsuta-jingu-temma-cho |
| 5 | M25 | 堀田 | ほりた | horita |
| 6 | M24 | 妙音通 | みょうおんどおり | myoon-dori |
| 7 | M23 | 新瑞橋 | あらたまばし | aratama-bashi |
| 8 | M22 | 瑞穂運動場東 | みずほうんどうじょうひがし | mizuho-undojo-higashi |
| 9 | M21 | 総合リハビリセンター | そうごうりはびりせんたー | sogo-rihabiri-senta |
| 10 | M20 | 八事 | やごと | yagoto |
| 11 | M19 | 八事日赤 | やごとにっせき | yagoto-nisseki |
| 12 | M18 | 名古屋大学 | なごやだいがく | nagoya-daigaku |
| 13 | M17 | 本山 | もとやま | motoyama |
| 14 | M16 | 自由ヶ丘 | じゆうがおか | jiyugaoka |
| 15 | M15 | 茶屋ヶ坂 | ちゃやがさか | chayagasaka |
| 16 | M14 | 砂田橋 | すなだばし | sunada-bashi |
| 17 | M13 | ナゴヤドーム前矢田 | なごやどーむまえやだ | nagoya-domu-mae-yada |
| 18 | M12 | 大曽根 | おおぞね | ozone |
| 19 | M11 | 平安通 | へいあんどおり | heian-dori |
| 20 | M10 | 志賀本通 | しがほんどおり | shiga-hondori |
| 21 | M09 | 黒川 | くろかわ | kurokawa |
| 22 | M08 | 名城公園 | めいじょうこうえん | meijo-koen |
| 23 | M07 | 名古屋城 | なごやじょう | nagoyajo |
| 24 | M06 | 久屋大通 | ひさやおおどおり | hisaya-odori |
| 25 | M05 | 栄 | さかえ | sakae |
| 26 | M04 | 矢場町 | やばちょう | yaba-cho |
| 27 | M03 | 上前津 | かみまえづ | kamimaezu |
| 28 | M02 | 東別院 | ひがしべついん | higashi-betsuin |