Age Station

Age Station
上ゲ駅
Age Station
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
District Chita
Town Taketoyo
Neighborhood etc. Shitamon 23-5
Postal code470-2339
(in Japanese)愛知県知多郡武豊町字下門23番地5 [1]
History
Year opened 1932
Rail services
Operator(s) Nagoya Railroad
Line(s) Meitetsu Kōwa Line
Statistics 53,857 [2] passengers/year 2006

Age Station (上ゲ駅 Age-eki) is a railway station in the town of Taketoyo, Chita District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Operated by the Nagoya Railroad Company Ltd (Meitetsu), the station is situated 19.0 rail kilometers south of the northern, Ōtagawa terminus of that company's Kōwa Line.

History

Age Station was opened on July 1, 1932 as a station on the Chita Railway. The Chita Railway became part of the Meitetsu group on February 2, 1943. In 2007, the Tranpass system of magnetic fare cards with automatic turnstiles was implemented.

Lines

Layout

Age Station has two opposed side platforms. The station is unstaffed.

Platforms

1 Meitetsu Kōwa Line For Kōwa, and Utsumi
2 Meitetsu Kōwa Line For Chita Handa, Ōtagawa and Kanayama

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Meitetsu Kōwa Line
Limited Express: no stop
Rapid Express: no stop
Express: no stop
Semi Express: no stop
Aoyama   Local   Chita Taketoyo

External links

References

  1. 上ゲ [Age] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  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. Retrieved 30 November 2010.

Coordinates: 34°51′30″N 136°54′58″E / 34.8583°N 136.9161°E