Kikugawa Station

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Kikugawa Station 菊川駅
JR Kikugawa Station
Location
Prefecture	Shizuoka (See other stations in Shizuoka)
City	Kikugawa
Neighborhood etc.	Horinouchi
Postal code	439-0006
(in Japanese)	静岡県菊川市堀之内
History
Year opened	1889
Former name	Horinouchi Station
Present name since	1956
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR Central
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Statistics	4,544 passengers/day 2006
Medium bus terminal at this station

Kikugawa Station (菊川駅, Kikugawa-eki) is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line of Central Japan Railway Company in Kikugawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station is 222.2 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Station history

Kikugawa Station was opened on April 16, 1889 when the section of the Tōkaidō Main Line connecting Shizuoka with Hamamatsu was completed. It was originally named Horinouchi Station (堀ノ内駅, Horinouchi-eki). It was renamed Kikugawa on April 10, 1956. Regularly scheduled freight service was discontinued in 1971.

Lines

Central Japan Railway Company
- Tōkaidō Main Line

Layout

Kikugawa Station has a single side platform serving Track 1 and an island platform serving Track 2 and Track 3, connected to the station building by an overpass. Track 1 is used only during peak hours. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and a manned "Green Window" service counter.

Platform

1	■Tōkaidō Main Line	For Hamamatsu
2	■Tōkaidō Main Line	For Shimada, Shizuoka

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Central Japan Railway Company
Tōkaidō Main Line
Shimada	Home Liner	Kakegawa
Kanaya	Local	Kakegawa

References

Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.(Japanese)
Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen (in Japanese). Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 21, vol. II. ISBN 4533029809.

v t e Stations of the Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Central)

Atami Kannami Mishima Numazu Katahama Hara Higashi-Tagonoura Yoshiwara Fuji Fujikawa Shin-Kambara Kambara Yui Okitsu Shimizu Kusanagi Shizuoka Freight Terminal Higashi-Shizuoka Shizuoka Abekawa Mochimune Yaizu Nishi-Yaizu Fujieda Rokugō Shimada Kanaya Kikugawa Kakegawa Aino Fukuroi Iwata Toyodachō Tenryūgawa Hamamatsu Nishi-Hamamatsu Freight Terminal Takatsuka Maisaka Bentenjima Araimachi Washizu Shinjohara Futagawa Toyohashi Nishi-Kozakai Aichi-Mito Mikawa-Ōtsuka Mikawa-Miya Gamagōri Mikawa-Shiotsu Sangane Kōda Aimi Okazaki Nishi-Okazaki Anjō Mikawa-Anjō Higashi-Kariya Noda-Shimmachi Kariya Aizuma Ōbu Kyōwa Minami-Ōdaka Ōdaka Kasadera Atsuta Kanayama Otōbashi Nagoya Biwajima Kiyosu Inazawa Owari-Ichinomiya Kisogawa Gifu Nishi-Gifu Gifu Freight Terminal Hozumi Ōgaki Tarui Sekigahara Kashiwabara Ōmi-Nagaoka Samegai Maibara

Mino-Akasaka Branch:	Ōgaki Arao Mino-Akasaka

Coordinates: 34°45′42″N 138°5′8″E / 34.76167°N 138.08556°E / 34.76167; 138.08556

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