Obata Station (Mie)

Obata Station
小俣駅
Obata Station in 2008
Location
Prefecture Mie
(See other stations in Mie)
City Ise
Neighborhood etc. 8254-5 Motomachi, Obata-cho
Postal code519-0503
(in Japanese)三重県伊勢市小俣町元町8254-5
History
Year opened 1931
Rail services
Operator(s) Kintetsu
Line(s) Kintetsu Yamada Line
Statistics 238 passengers/day (FY2010)

Obata Station (小俣駅 Obata-eki) is a railway station on the Kintetsu Yamada Line in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu. Miyamachi Station is 24.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Ise-Nakagawa Station.[1]

Line

Station layout

Obata Station has a two opposed side platforms, connected by a level crossing. The station is unattended.

Platforms

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

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Kintetsu Yamada Line
Akeno   Local   Miyamachi

History

Obata Station opened on July 24, 1931 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] The station was renamed to its present name in March 1933.[1] The station has been unattended since February 21, 2005.

Surrounding area

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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°30′46″N 136°41′07″E / 34.51278°N 136.68528°E