Hinaga Station (Aichi)

Hinaga Station
日長駅
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Chita
Neighborhood etc. Morishita 108-banchi
Postal code478-0041
(in Japanese)愛知県知多市日長字森下１０８番地１[1]
History
Year opened 1912
Rail services
Operator(s) Nagoya Railroad
Line(s) Tokoname Line
Statistics 73,738[2] passengers/year 2006

Hinaga Station (日長駅 Hinaga-eki) is a railway station operated by Meitetsu's Tokoname Line located in Chita, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 21.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Jingū-mae Station. [1]

History

Hinaga Station was opened on February 18, 1912 as a station on the Aichi Electric Railway Company. The Aichi Electric Railway became part of the Meitetsu group on August 1, 1935. The station has been unattended since September 1970. In January 2005, the Tranpass system of magnetic fare cards with automatic turnstiles was implemented. [3]

Lines

Layout

Hinaga Station has two opposed side platforms. Both platforms are short, and can handle trains of only four carriages or less.

Platforms

1 ■Tokoname Line For Tokoname and Central Japan International Airport
2 ■Tokoname Line For Ōtagawa and Jingū-mae

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Meitetsu Tokoname Line
μSKY Limited Express: no stop
Limited Express: no stop
Rapid Express: no stop
Express: no stop
Semi Express: no stop
Nagaura   Local   Shin-Maiko

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 日長 [HINAGA] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 25 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. 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  3. ↑ 鷲田, 鉄也 (September 2010), クロニクル常滑線, 週刊朝日百科, 週刊歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 (in Japanese) (Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc.) (9): 9, ISBN 978-4-02-340139-6

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Coordinates: 34°57′42″N 136°49′56″E / 34.9618°N 136.8323°E