Owari Asahi Station

Owari Asahi Station
尾張旭駅
Owari Asahi Station
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Owariasahi
Neighborhood etc. Higashi Daito-cho, Harada 2591-3
Postal code488-0801
(in Japanese)愛知県尾張旭市東大道町原田2591-3
History
Year opened 1905
Former name Asahi-Arai Station
Present name since 1971
Rail services
Operator(s) Meitetsu
Line(s) Meitetsu Seto Line
Statistics 7,782 passengers/day 2009

Owari Asahi Station (尾張旭駅 Owari Asahi-eki) is a railway station operated by Meitetsu's Seto Line located in Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 14.7 rail kilometers from terminus of the line at Sakaemachi Station.[1]

History

Owari Asahi Station was opened on April 2, 1905, as Arai Station (新居駅 Arai-eki) on the privately operated Seto Electric Railway. Its changed its name to Asahi-Arai Station (旭新居駅 Asahi-Arai-eki) on February 24, 1922. The Seto Electric Railway was absorbed into the Meitetsu group on September 1, 1939. The station was renamed to its present name on November 1, 1971. The station was relocated to its present location, and new station building was completed in July 1994.

Lines

Layout

Owari Asahi Station has two island platforms serving three tracks.

Platforms

1 Meitetsu Seto Line For Shin-Seto and Owari Seto
2 Meitetsu Seto Line Arrivals only
3 Meitetsu Seto Line For Kitayama, Ōzone, and Sakaemachi
4 Meitetsu Seto Line For Kitayama, Ōzone, and Sakaemachi

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Nagoya Railroad
Seto Line
Ōmori-Kinjōgakuin-mae   Express   Sangō
Asahi-mae   Local Express   Sangō
Asahi-mae   Local   Sangō

External links

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Notes

  1. 尾張旭 [Owari Asahi] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. Retrieved 29 November 2010.

Coordinates: 35°13′01″N 137°02′10″E / 35.2169°N 137.036°E