Goyu Station

Goyu Station
御油駅
A view of the station
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Toyokawa
Neighborhood etc. Goyu-cho
Postal code441-0211
(in Japanese)愛知県豊川市御油町西井領2番地4 [1]
History
Year opened 1926
Former name Hon-Goyu Station
Present name since 1949
Rail services
Operator(s) Nagoya Railroad
Line(s) Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Statistics 113,667 [2] passengers/year 2006

Goyu Station (御油駅 Goyu-eki) is a railway station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line locatedin Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan. It is located 10.7 kilometers from the junction of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi.

History

Goyu Station was opened on April 1, 1926 as Moto Goyu Station (本御油駅 Moto-Goyu-eki) on the Aichi Electric Railway. On April 1, 1935, the Aichi Electric Railway merged with the Nagoya Railroad (the forerunner of present-day Meitetsu). The station was renamed to its present name on March 1, 1949. The station has been unattended since 1967.

Lines

Layout

Goyu Station has two opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1 Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line For Higashi Okazaki, Meitetsu Nagoya, and Inuyama
2 Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line For Toyokawa-inari and Toyohashi

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
  Local (普通)   Meiden Akasaka

See also

External links

References

  1. 御油 [Goyu] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  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. 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2010.

Coordinates: 34°50′46″N 137°19′16″E / 34.8460°N 137.3212°E