Saya Station

Saya Station
佐屋駅

Saya Station
Location Saya-cho Sahara 2277, Aisai, Aichi
(愛知県愛西市須依町佐原2277番地[1]
Japan
Operated by Meitetsu
Line(s) Meitetsu Bisai Line
History
Opened 1898
Traffic
Passengers (2006) 721,220[2]

Saya Station (佐屋駅 Saya-eki) is a train station on the Meitetsu Bisai Line located in Aisai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 4.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Bisai Line at Yatomi.

History

Saya Station was opened on April 3, 1898 as the middle of three stations on a section of line by the privately held Bisai Railroad, which was purchased by Meitetsu on August 1, 1925 becoming the Meitetsu Bisai Line.[3]

Lines

Layout

Saya Station has a single island platform and a single side platform, connected by an overpass. The platforms are not even: platform 1 can accommodate trains of eight carriages in length, whereas platforms 2 and 3 are shorter, and can accommodate trains of only up to six carriages.

Platforms

1  Bisai Line For Tsushima, Sukaguchi, Meitetsu-Nagoya, and Meitetsu-Ichinomiya
2  Bisai Line For Yatomi
3  Bisai Line For Tsushima, Sukaguchi, Meitetsu-Nagoya, and Meitetsu-Ichinomiya

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Nagoya Railroad
Bisai Line
Gonosan - Hibino

References

  1. 佐屋 [Saya] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  2. 第10章 運輸・通信 (平成20年度刊愛知県統計年鑑) [Statistics of Aichi in Year 20 of the Heisei Era] (in Japanese). Aichi Prefecture. 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  3. 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), pp. 20,21, ISBN 978-4-02-340138-9 Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Coordinates: 35°08′52″N 136°43′02″E / 35.1477°N 136.7173°E / 35.1477; 136.7173


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