Sohara Station (Mie)

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Sohara Station
楚原駅
Sohara Station
Location
Prefecture Mie
(See other stations in Mie)
City Inabe
Neighborhood etc. Inabe-cho Sohara 544-1
Postal code511 - 0202
(in Japanese)三重県いなべ市員弁町楚原544-1
History
Year opened 1914
Rail services
Operator(s) Sangi Railway
Line(s) Hokusei Line
Statistics 577 passengers/day 2011

Sohara Station (楚原駅 Sohara-eki) is a railway station in Inabe, Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is located 14.4 rail kilometres from the terminus of the Hokusei Line at Nishi-Kuwana Station.

Lines

Layout

Sohara Station has two opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1 Hokusei Line for Nishi-Kuwana
2 Hokusei Line for Ageki

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Sangi Hokusei Line
Sohara Local Ageki

History

Sohara Station was opened on April 5, 1914 as a station of the Hokusei Railway, which became the Hokusei Electric Railway on June 27, 1934. Through a series of mergers, the line became part of the Kintetsu group on April 1, 1965. A new station building was completed in September 1992. On April 1, 2003 the Sangi Railway was spun out of Kintetsu as an independent company.


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Coordinates: 35°06′39.56″N 136°33′37.21″E / 35.1109889°N 136.5603361°E / 35.1109889; 136.5603361

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