Tenryūgawa Station

Tenryūgawa Station 天竜川駅
JR Tenryūgawa Station in 2008
Location
Prefecture	Shizuoka (See other stations in Shizuoka)
City	Hamamatsu
Ward	Higashi
Neighborhood etc.	Tenryūgawa-chō
Postal code	435 - 0013
(in Japanese)	静岡県浜松市東区天龍川町
History
Year opened	1898
Rail services
Operator(s)	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Statistics	2,565 passengers/day 2006
There is a bus terminal at this station

Station platforms, 2014.

Tenryūgawa Station (天竜川駅, Tenryūgawa-eki) is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line of Central Japan Railway Company in Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station is 252.7 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

History

Tenryūgawa Station was opened on July 10, 1898 for both passenger and freight services. Regularly scheduled freight service was discontinued on March 15, 1972; however, occasional freight trains operated by the Japan Freight Railway Company continued to use the station until April 1, 2006.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Tōkaidō Main Line

Layout

Tenryūgawa Station has two island platforms, one serving Track 1, which is an infrequently used auxiliary platform, and Track 2. The other island platform serves Track 3, and Track 4, which is also an infrequently used auxiliary platform. The two platforms are connected by an overpass. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and a manned "Green Window" service counter.

Platform

Adjacent stations

References

• Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.(Japanese)

External links

• Tenryūgawa Station home page.(Japanese)

Coordinates: 34°43′02″N 137°46′45″E / 34.71722°N 137.77917°E / 34.71722; 137.77917