Nakagawara Station (Mie)

Nakagawara Station

中川原駅
Nakagawara Station; 中川原駅
	Nakagawara Station
General information
Location	2-2-14 Nakagawara, Yokkaichi, Mie; （三重県四日市市中川原二丁目2-14）; Japan
Operated by	Kintetsu Railway
Line(s)	Yunoyama Line
Connections	Bus stop;
History
Opened	1913
Passengers
	881 daily

Nakagawara Station (中川原駅, Nakagawara-eki) is a railway station on the Yunoyama Line in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu. Nakagawara Station is 1.7 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kintetsu-Yokkaichi Station.^[1]

Lines

Nakagawara Station has two opposed side platforms, connected by a level crossing to the station building.

1	■ Yunoyama Line	for Kintetsu Yokkaichi • Kintetsu Nagoya • Kintetsu Namba
2	■ Yunoyama Line	for Komono • Yunoyama-Onsen

«		Service	»
Yunoyama Line
Kintetsu-Yokkaichi		Local		Ise-Matsumoto

Nakagawara Station is used primarily by morning and evening commuters to school and work.

According to a study conducted on November 8, 2005,^{[citation needed]} 1,281 people passed through this station daily. This made it the:

226th busiest Kintetsu station (out of 323 total stations at the time).
58th busiest Kintetsu station in Mie Prefecture (out of 116 total stations at the time).
6th busiest station on the Yunoyama Line (out of 10 total stations).

September 24, 1913 - Station opens as a passenger station on the Yokkaichi Railway.
March 1, 1931 - Station falls under the ownership of Mie Railway following merger.
February 11, 1944 - Station falls under the ownership of Sanco following merger.
February 1, 1964 - Station falls under the ownership of Mie Electric Railway after railway division of Sanco splits off and forms separate company.
April 1, 1965 - Station falls under the ownership of Kintetsu following merger.^[2]
April 1, 2007 - Support for PiTaPa and ICOCA begins.
October 2012 - Station is unattended after installation of automatic wicket gates

^ Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄. Japan: Neko Publishing. ISBN 4-87366-874-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
^ Kintetsu Company History