Matsue English Garden Mae Station

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Matsue English Garden Mae Station (松江イングリッシュガーデン前駅, Matsue Ingurisshu Gāden mae Eki^?) is a train station operated by Ichibata Electric Railway, located in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.

1 Station name
2 Line
3 Station layout
4 Adjacent stations
5 Notes

[edit] Station name

This station was called Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum Mae Station (ルイス・C.ティファニー庭園美術館前駅, Ruisu Shī Tifanī Teien Bijutsukan-mae Eki^?) which consists of 18 letters and punctuation marks and is written with 23 kana (both countings exclude eki or "Station"), was the longest in Japan. On April 2, 2001, the station originally called Furue Station (古江駅, Furue Eki^?) was renamed to the long name as the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, a museum for the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, was to open near the station. The station name was changed to current name, on May 21, 2007 as the museum closed on March 31, 2007.^[1]

As of May 2007, The longest station name in Japan is currently Minami Aso Mizu-no Umareru Sato Hakusui Kōgen Station on the Minami Aso Railway in Kumamoto Prefecture.

[edit] Line

Kita-Matsue Line

[edit] Station layout

There is an island platform. There are no staff on this station.　

[edit] Adjacent stations

«	Service		»
Matsue-Shinjiko Onsen	Kita-Matsue Line		Asahigaoka
Matsue-Shinjiko Onsen	Express	Asahigaoka
Matsue-Shinjiko Onsen	Izumo Taisha	Aikamachi
Limited Express: no stop