Kushida Station

Kushida Station
櫛田駅
Kushida Station
Location
Prefecture Mie
(See other stations in Mie)
City Matsusaka
Neighborhood etc. 1131-5 Toyohara-cho
Postal code515-0205
(in Japanese)三重県松阪市豊原町1131-5
History
Year opened 1930
Rail services
Operator(s) Kintetsu
Line(s) Kintetsu Yamada Line
Statistics 631 passengers/day (FY2010)
appearance of Kushida station platform

Kushida Station (櫛田駅 Kushida-eki) is a railway station on the Kintetsu Yamada Line in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu. Kushida Station is 13.9 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Ise-Nakagawa Station.[1]

Station layout

Kushida Station has two side platforms and four tracks. Local trains use side tracks (Tracks 1 and 4). Through trains which do not stop at this station use center tracks (Tracks 2 and 3).

Platforms

1 Yamada Line for Ujiyamada, Toba and Kashikojima
4 Yamada Line for Ise-Nakagawa
Change trains at Matsusaka or Ise-Nakagawa for Nagoya, Osaka Namba and Kyoto

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Kintetsu Yamada Line
Higashi-Matsusaka   Local   Koishiro
Express: no stop
Rapid Express: no stop

History

Kushida Station opened on March 27, 1930 as a station on the Sangu Kyuko Electric Railway. On March 15, 1941, the line merged with Osaka Electric Railway to become a station on Kansai Kyuko Railway's Yamada Line. [2] This line in turn was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on June 1, 1944 to form Kintetsu.[2] A new station building was completed in March 1992.

Surrounding area

References

  1. Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan isbn = 4-87366-874-3: Neko Publishing.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kintetsu Company History

External links

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Coordinates: 34°32′56″N 136°35′00″E / 34.5489°N 136.5832°E