Meiden-Akasaka Station

Meiden-Akasaka Station
名電赤坂駅
A view of the station
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Toyokawa
Neighborhood etc. Akasaka-cho
Postal Code 441-0202
(in Japanese) 愛知県豊川市赤坂町松本３５番地２ [1]
History
Year opened 1925
Former name Aiden-Akasaka Station
Present name since 1935
Rail services
Operator(s) Nagoya Railroad
Line(s) Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Statistics 167,207[2] passengers/year 2006
There is a bus stop near this station

Meiden-Akasaka Station (名電赤坂駅 Meiden Akasaka-eki?) is a train station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line locatedin Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan. It is located 12.5 kilometers from the junction of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi.

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History

Meiden-Akasaka Station was opened on April 1, 1925 as Aiden-Akasaka Station (名電赤坂駅 Aiden-Akasaka-eki?) on the Aichi Electric Railway. On April 1, 1935, the Aichi Electric Railway merged with the Nagoya Railway (the forerunner of present-day Meitetsu). The station was renamed to its present name on August 1, 1935. The station has been unattended since 1971.

Lines

Layout

Platforms

1 ■Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line For Higashi-Okazaki, Meitetsu Nagoya, and Inuyama
2 ■Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line For Toyokawa-Inari and Toyohashi

Adjacent stations

Meiden-Akasaka Station has two elevated opposed side platforms.

« Service »
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Goyu   Local (普通)   Meiden-Nagasawa

See Also

External links

References

  1. ^ "名電赤坂 [Meiden-Akasaka]" (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. http://www.meitetsu.co.jp/rosenzu/line01/eki/1173589_1188.asp. Retrieved 10 December 2010. 
  2. ^ "第10章　運輸・通信 （平成20年度刊愛知県統計年鑑） [Statistics of Aichi in Year 20 of the Heisei Era]" (in Japanese). Aichi Prefecture. 2008. http://www.pref.aichi.jp/0000022354.html. Retrieved 30 November 2010.