Toyohashi Station
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Toyohashi 豊橋 | |
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![]() The east entrance of the station (September 2005) | |
General information | |
Location | Hanada-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi (愛知県豊橋市花田町西宿) Japan |
Operated by | JR Central, Meitetsu |
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History | |
Opened | 1888 |
Passengers | |
FY2008 | 54,109 (JR) 34,179 (Meitetsu) daily |
Toyohashi Station (豊橋駅, Toyohashi-eki) is an interchange railway station in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and the private railway operator Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu).
Lines
Toyohashi Station on is served by the high-speed Tokaido Shinkansen, and the conventional Tokaido Main Line and Iida Line operated by JR Central. It is also a terminus of the private Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line.
Toyohashi Railroad has two small stations close to Toyohashi Station: Shin-Toyohashi Station for the Atsumi Line railway and Ekimae Station for the Azumada Main Line tramway.
Layout
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Local train services at Toyohashi Station are handled by five platforms serving eight tracks. The Iida Line and Meitetsu lines use three tracks terminating in a bay platform. The Tokaido Main Line uses a side platform and two island platforms. The elevated shinkansen portion of Toyohashi Station has a side platform and an island platform.
Platforms
1-2 | ■ Iida Line | for Aichi, Iida, and Nagano |
3 | ■ Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line | for Jingū-mae, Meitetsu-Nagoya , Meitetsu Gifu, and Shin Unuma |
4 | ■ Tokaido Main Line | for Nagoya, Gifu, Ōgaki, and Maibara |
■ Iida Line | for Toyokawa, Iida, and Tatsuno | |
5-8 | ■ Tokaido Main Line | for Nagoya, Gifu, Ōgaki, Maibara, Hamamatsu and Shizuoka |
11-12 | ■ Tokaido Shinkansen | for Shizuoka and Tokyo |
13 | ■ Tokaido Shinkansen | for Nagoya and Shin-Osaka |
Adjacent stations
← | Service | → | ||
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Tokaido Shinkansen | ||||
Nozomi: Does not stop at this station | ||||
Shin-Yokohama, Odawara, Shizuoka or Hamamatsu | Hikari[Note 1] | Nagoya | ||
Hamamatsu | Kodama | Mikawa-Anjō | ||
Tokaido Main Line | ||||
Terminus | Home Liner | Gamagōri | ||
Futagawa | Special Rapid | Gamagōri | ||
Futagawa | New Rapid | Gamagōri | ||
Terminus | Rapid | Gamagōri | ||
Futagawa | Semi Rapid | Nishi-Kozakai | ||
Futagawa | Local | Nishi-Kozakai | ||
Iida Line | ||||
Terminus | Limited Express Inaji | Aichi | ||
Terminus | Rapid | Kozakai | ||
Terminus | Local | Funamachi | ||
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line | ||||
Terminus | Rapid Limited Express | Higashi-Okazaki | ||
Terminus | Limited Express | Aichi | ||
Terminus | Express | Ina |
- ^ Only a small number of Hikari services stop at Toyohashi.
History
Toyohashi Station opened September 1, 1888.[1] The privately owned Toyokawa Railway began operations to Toyohashi on July 15, 1897, but renamed its terminus Yoshida Station (吉田駅) in 1899 to differentiate itself from the government railway system. The station building was rebuilt in 1916 and again in 1927. The Aichi Electric Railway's Toyohashi Line began operations to the Yoshida Station side of the facility on June 1, 1927. This line became part of Meitetsu on August 1, 1935, and is now the Nagoya Main Line.[2] The Toyokawa Railway was nationalized on August 1, 1943, becoming the Iida Line, and the usage of ‘Yoshida Station’ was dropped. The station was destroyed in the Toyohashi Air Raid of June 20, 1945, during World War II.
After the war, the JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and a new station was completed in 1950.[citation needed] The Tokaido Shinkansen opened on October 1, 1964. A new station building was completed in 1970.[citation needed] With the privatization and dissolution of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of JR Central. A shopping center and a hotel were added to the station building complex in 1997.[citation needed]
References
- Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.Template:Ja icon
- ^ 中西, 隆紀 (2010). 日本の鉄道創世記 ~幕末明治の鉄道発達史~ (in Japanese). Kawade Shobō Shinsha. p. 135. ISBN 978-4-309-22527-2.
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