Tsushima Station

Tsushima Station
津島駅
Tsushima Station
Location
Prefecture Aichi
(See other stations in Aichi)
City Tsushima
Neighborhood etc. Kinu-cho 1-1
Postal code496-0802
(in Japanese)愛知県津島市錦町1番地1
History
Year opened 1898
Rail services
Operator(s) Meitetsu
Line(s) Bisai Line
Tsushima Line
Statistics 6,460 passengers/day 2009

Tsushima Station (津島駅 Tsushima-eki) is a train station on the Meitetsu Tsushima Line and Bisai Line located in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 11.8 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Tsushima Line at Sukaguchi and 8.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Bisai Line at Yatomi.

History

Tsushima Station was opened on April 3, 1893, as a terminal station of the privately owned Bisai Railroad, on the same day as the opposing terminal, Yatomi Station, and Saya Station. Meitetsu bought the Bisai Railroad on August 1, 1925.[1] On October 25, 1932, former Shin-Tsushima Station on Meitetsu's Tsushima Line was rebuilt as part of Tsushima Station. The tracks were elevated and station rebuilt in 1968.

Lines

Layout

Tsushima Station has a single elevated island platform. Trains of both the Bisai Line and the Tsushima Line use the same platform.

Platforms

1 ■Bisai Line For Saya and Yatomi
For Morikami and Meitetsu-Ichinomiya
2 ■Tsushima Line For Sukaguchi, Meitetsu-Nagoya, Higashi-Okazaki, Nishio, and Ōtagawa
■Bisai Line For Morikami Station and Meitetsu-Ichinomiya Station

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Nagoya Railroad
Bisai Line
Hibino - Machikata
Meitetsu Tsushima Line
Shobata   Limited Express (特急)   Terminus
Shobata   Rapid Express (快速急行)   Terminus
Shobata   Rapid Express (急行)   Terminus
Fujinami   Local (普通)   Terminus

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, ISBN 978-4-02-340138-9 Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Coordinates: 35°10′39″N 136°43′52″E / 35.1774°N 136.7312°E