Myōjō Station

Myōjō Station (明星駅, Myōjō-eki) is a railway station on the Yamada Line in Meiwa, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu Railway. Myōjō Station is 19.8 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Ise-Nakagawa Station.[1] The station has the Inspection Center for the Yamada Line, the Toba Line and the Shima Line.

Myōjō Station

明星駅
Myōjō Station in 2008
Location2564 Myōjō, Meiwa, Mie
（三重県多気郡明和町大字明星2564）
Japan
Operated byKintetsu Railway
Line(s)Yamada Line
History
Opened1930
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010)595 daily

Lines

Station layout

Myōjō Station has two island platforms serving 2 tracks each. Tracks (Platforms) 2 and 4 are main tracks and Tracks (Platforms) 1 and 3 are refuge tracks.

Platforms
1, 2 ■ Yamada Line for Ujiyamada, Toba and Kashikojima
3, 4 ■ Yamada Line for Ise-Nakagawa
  • The first train for Ise-Nakagawa (through to Nabari on the Osaka Line) departs from Track (Platform) 1.

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Yamada Line
Saikū   Local   Akeno

History

Myōjō Station opened on March 27, 1930 as a station on the Sangu Kyuko Electric Railway. On March 15, 1941, the line merged with Osaka Electric Railway to become a station on Kansai Kyuko Railway's Yamada Line.[2] This line in turn was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on June 1, 1944 to form Kintetsu.[2]

Surrounding area
  • Kintetsu Myōjō Train Inspection Center
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References
  1. Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
  2. Kintetsu Company History

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