Momozono Station

Monozono Station
桃園駅
Momozono Station
Location
Prefecture Mie
(See other stations in Mie)
City Tsu
Neighborhood etc. 375 Makino
Postal code514-1123
(in Japanese)三重県津市牧町375
History
Year opened 1930
Rail services
Operator(s) Kintetsu
Line(s) Kintetsu Nagoya Line
Statistics 184 passengers/day (FY2010)

Momozono Station (桃園駅 Momozono-eki) is a railway station on the Kintetsu Nagoya Line in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu. Momozono Station is served by the Kintetsu Nagoya Line, and is 75.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kintetsu Nagoya Station.[1]

Lines

Station layout

Momozono Station has two opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1 Nagoya Line for Ise-Nakagawa, Osaka Namba, Kashikojima
2 Nagoya Line for Tsu, Kintetsu Yokkaichi, Nagoya

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Kintetsu Nagoya Line
Express (急行): no stop
Hisai   Local (普通)   Ise-Nakagawa

History

Momozono Station opened on May 18, 1930 as a station on the Sangu Express Electric Railway's Tsu Line. The Tsu Line was renamed the Nagoya Line on December 7, 1938. On March 15, 1941, the Sangu Express Electric Railway merged with Osaka Electric Railway to become a station on Kansai Express Railway's Nagoya Line. [2] This line in turn was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on June 1, 1944 to form Kintetsu.[2] The station has been unattended since March 1, 2001.


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

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Coordinates: 34°39′48.93″N 136°28′38.81″E / 34.6635917°N 136.4774472°E