Ushikubo Station

Ushikubo Station
牛久保駅
Ushikubo Station
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Toyokawa
Neighborhood etc. Ushikubo-cho
Postal Code 442 - 0826
(in Japanese) 愛知県豊川市牛久保町城跡55
History
Year opened 1897
Rail services
Operator(s) JR Central
Line(s) Iida Line
Statistics 865 passengers/day 2007

Ushikubo Station (牛久保駅 Ushikubo-eki?) is a train station on the Iida Line in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 6.6 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Iida Line at Toyohashi Station.

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Station History

Ushikubo Station was established on July 15, 1897; 114 years ago (1897-07-15) as a station on the now-defunct Toyokawa Railway (豊川鉄道 Toyokawa Tetsudō?) connecting Toyohashi with Toyokawa. [1] On August 1, 1943, the Toyokawa Railway was nationalized along with some other local lines to form the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Iida Line.[2] Due to the expansion of traffic at the nearby Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, the station buildingw was also rebuilt in 1943; this building survived the Toyokawa Air Raid and is still used as the station building to date. Scheduled freight operations were discontinued in 1971. 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.

Lines

Layout

Ushikubo Station has two opposed side platforms connected by a overpass crossing.

Platforms

1 Iida Line For Toyokawa and Iida
2 Iida Line For Toyohashi

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Iida Line
Limited Express "Inaji" (特急「伊那路」): no stop
Kozakai   Local (普通)   Toyokawa

See also

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ushikubo_Station Ushikubo Station] at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ^ 鷲田, 鉄也 (September 2010), (in Japanese)週刊朝日百科, 週刊歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 (Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc.) (8): 20, 21, 22, ISBN 9784023401389 
  2. ^ Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998) (in Japanese). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 99, vol. II. ISBN 4533029809. 

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