Ōka Station

Ōka Station
相可駅
Ōka Station
Location
Prefecture Mie
(See other stations in Mie)
District Taki
Town Taki
Neighborhood etc. 1146 Ōka
Postal code519 - 2181
(in Japanese)三重県多気郡多気町相可1146
History
Year opened 1923
Rail services
Operator(s) JR Central
Line(s) Kisei Main Line
Statistics 242 passengers/day (FY2010)

Ōka Station (相可駅 Ōka-eki) is a railway station in Taki, Taki District, Mie Prefecture, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). The station is 46.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kameyama Station.

History

Ōka Station opened on March 20,1923 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Kisei-East Line. The line was extended on to Kawazoe Station on November 20, 1923. The JGR became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War 2, and the line was renamed the Kisei Main Line on July 15, 1959. The station has been unattended since December 21, 1983. The station was absorbed into the JR Central network upon the privatization of the (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Lines

Station layout

Ōka Station was originally built with a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic; however it was converted to two opposed side platforms connected by an overpass in April 2005. There is no station building.

Platforms

1 Kisei Main Line For Matsusaka, Nagoya
2 Kisei Main Line ForOwase, Shingū

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)
Kisei Main Line
Taki - Sana

External links

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Coordinates: 34°30′10″N 136°32′44″E / 34.5029°N 136.5455°E