Toyokawa Station (Aichi)

Toyokawa Station
豊川駅
Toyokawa Station
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Toyokawa
Neighborhood etc. Toyokawa-cho
Postal code442 - 0033
(in Japanese)愛知県豊川市豊川町仁保通10
History
Year opened 1897
Rail services
Operator(s) JR Central
Japan Freight Railway Company
Line(s) Iida Line
Statistics 3104 passengers/day 2007

Toyokawa Station (豊川駅 Toyokawa-eki) is a railway station on the Iida Line in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The station provides access to Toyokawa Inari and is located 8.7 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Iida Line at Toyohashi Station.

Station History

Toyokawa Station was opened onJuly 15, 1897 as a terminal station on the now-defunct Toyokawa Railway (豊川鉄道 Toyokawa Tetsudō). At the time, the line consisted of Toyohashi Station, Ushikubo Station, and this station, in that order, but the line was soon extended on to Mikawa-Ichinomiya later that year.[1] In December 1931 a modern, 3-story concrete station building was completed. A spur line, the Nishi-Toyokawa Line, connected to the station on May 12, 1942. On August 1, 1943, the Toyokawa Railway was nationalized along with some other local lines to form the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Iida Line.[2] The Nishi-Toyokawa Line ceased operation in 1956. Scheduled freight operations were discontinued in 1984. Along with its division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company.

Lines

Layout

Toyokawa Station has one island platform and one side platform. The station building was rebuilt in 1997 as an elevated station.

Platforms

1 Iida Line For Chūbu-Tenryū and Iida
2 Iida Line For Toyohashi
3 Iida Line For Toyohashi

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Iida Line
Toyohashi   Limited Express "Inaji" (特急「伊那路」)   Shinshiro
Ushikubo   Local (普通)   Mikawa-Ichinomiya

See also

Media related to Toyokawa Station (Aichi) at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. 鷲田, 鉄也 (September 2010), 週刊朝日百科, 週刊歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 (in Japanese) (Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc.) (8): 20,21,22, ISBN 978-4-02-340138-9 Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 99, vol. II. ISBN 4533029809.

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Coordinates: 34°49′21″N 137°23′50″E / 34.8225°N 137.3971°E