Shimo-Fukaya Station

Shimo-Fukaya Station
下深谷駅
Shimo-Fukaya Station
Location
Prefecture Mie
(See other stations in Mie)
City Kuwana
Neighborhood etc. 2279 Shimo-Fukaya
Postal code511 - 0808
(in Japanese)三重県桑名市大字下深谷部2279
History
Year opened 1921
Rail services
Operator(s) Yōrō Railway
Line(s) Yōrō Line
Statistics 1174 passengers/day (FY2010)

Shimo-Fukaya Station (下深谷駅 Shimo-Fukaya-eki) is a railway station on the Kintetsu Nagoya Line in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Yōrō Railway. Shimo-Fukaya Station is 4.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kuwana Station.

Lines

Station layout

Shimo-Fukaya Station has one island platform connected to the station building by a level crossing.

Platforms

1 Yōrō Line for Kuwana
2 Yōrō Line for Yōrō, Ōgaki


Adjacent stations

« Service »
Yōrō Railway
Yōrō Line
Harima - Shimo-Noshiro

History

Shimo-Fukaya Station opened on August 1, 1921 as a station on the Yōrō Railway. The Yōrō Railway became the Ise Electric Railway’s Yōrō Line on October 1, 1929, but re-emrged as the Yōrō Railway on April 20, 1936. It merged with the Sangu Electric Railway on August 1, 1940, and through a series of mergers became part of the Kansai Express Railway on June 1, 1944. [1] The line was split off into the new Yōrō Railway on October 1, 2007.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kintetsu Company History

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Coordinates: 35°05′47″N 136°39′43″E / 35.0964°N 136.6620°E