Chūbu-Tenryū Station

Chūbu-Tenryū Station
中部天竜駅
Chūbu-Tenryū Station looking toward Sakuma Rail Park, August 2008
Location
Prefecture Shizuoka
(See other stations in Shizuoka)
City Hamamatsu
Ward Tenryū
Neighborhood etc. Sakuma-cho Hamba 15
Postal Code 431 - 3905
(in Japanese) 浜松市天竜区佐久間町半場15
History
Year opened 1934
Former names Sakuma Station
Nakappe-Tenryū Station
Present name since 1943
Rail services
Operator(s) Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s) Iida Line

Chūbu-Tenryū Station (中部天竜駅 Chūbu-Tenryū-eki?) is a train station on the Iida Line in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. It is located 62.4 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Iida Line at Toyohashi Station.

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History

Chūbu-Tenryū Station was opened on November 11, 1934. The initial plans called for the station to eventually be joined by a spur line to Tenryū-Futamata Station on the Tenryū Hamanako Line. On August 1, 1943, the Sanshin Railway was nationalized along with several other local lines to form the Iida line. All freight services were discontinued in 1982 Along with its division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central).

The station was originally named Sakuma Station (the name presently used by the next station), and renamed in 1935 as Nakappe-Tenryū Station and again at the time of nationalization as Chūbu-Tenryū Station. The latter of the two events of renaming was only a change in official pronunciation of the kanji name.[1]

Lines

Chūbu-Tenryū Station is served by the JR Central Iida Line.

Layout

Chūbu-Tenryū Station is a manned station with a single island platform, and a station building with a "Green Window" manned service counter. The station is also home to the Sakuma Rail Park, a museum with exhibits on the Japanese railway system in general, and the Iida line in particular, including numerous examples of locomotives and rolling stock.[2]

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Iida Line
Yuya-Onsen   Limited Express "Inaji" (特急「伊那路」)   Misakubo
Shimokawai   Local (普通)   Sakuma

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See also

References

  1. ^ Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998) (in Japanese). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 102, vol. II. ISBN 4533029809. 
  2. ^ "佐久間レールパーク展示車両とイベント情報 (Sakuma Rail Park Exhibits and Event Information)". Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō (Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun) 38 (304): p38–42. August 2009. 
Stations of the Iida Line

Toyohashi • Funamachi • Shimoji • Kozakai • Ushikubo • Toyokawa • Mikawa-Ichinomiya • Nagayama • Ejima • Tōjō • Nodajō • Shinshiro • Higashi-Shimmachi • Chausuyama • Mikawa-Tōgō • Ōmi • Torii • Nagashinojō • Hon-Nagashino • Mikawa-Ōno • Yuya-Onsen • Mikawa-Makihara • Kakidaira • Mikawa-Kawai • Ikeba • Tōei • Izumma • Kamiichiba • Urakawa • Hayase • Shimokawai • Chūbu-Tenryū • Sakuma • Aizuki • Shironishi • Mukaichiba • Misakubo • Ōzore • Kowada • Nakaisamurai • Ina-Kozawa • Ugusu • Hiraoka • Shiteguri • Nukuta • Tamoto • Kadoshima • Karakasa • Kinno • Chiyo • Tenryūkyō • Kawaji • Tokimata • Dashina • Kega • Ina-Yawata • Shimoyamamura • Kanae • Kiriishi • Iida • Sakuramachi • Ina-Kamisato • Motozenkōji • Shimo-Ichida • Ichida • Shimodaira • Yamabuki • Ina-Ōshima • Kamikatagiri • Ina-Tajima • Takatōbara • Nanakubo • Ina-Hongō • Iijima • Tagiri • Ina-Fukuoka • Komachiya • Komagane • Ōtagiri • Miyada • Akagi • Sawando • Shimojima • Inashi • Ina-Kita • Tabata • Kitatono • Kinoshita • Ina-Matsushima • Sawa • Haba • Ina-Shimmachi • Miyaki • Tatsuno • (Kawagishi) • (Okaya)