Mikawa-Kawai Railway Station

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Mikawa-Kawai ( 三 河川 合 )
Mikawa-kawai.jpg
Reception building (February 2007)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
opening February 1, 1923
location
City / municipality Shinshiro
prefecture Aichi
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 0 '6 "  N , 137 ° 39' 50"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 0 '6 "  N , 137 ° 39' 50"  E
Height ( SO ) 155  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Central

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The Mikawa Kawai Station ( Jap. 三河川合駅 , Mikawa Kawai-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshu , operated by the railway company JR Central . It is located in Aichi Prefecture in the Shinshiro City area .

description

Mikawa-Kawai is a through station on the JR Central- operated Iida Line , which connects Toyohashi with Iida and Tatsuno . Thirteen regional trains run daily in the direction of Toyohashi and twelve in the direction of Iida (a few are tied through to Okaya on the Chūō main line ). The station is in the Kawai district on the right side of the Ure Valley. The facility is oriented from southwest to northeast and has four tracks, two of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on a central platform that is connected to the reception building on the east side via a level crossing .

history

In 1900, the Toyokawa Tetsudō railway stretched from Toyohashi to Ōmi . From 1919 the company Higashisan Jidōsha operated a bus route through the Ure Valley from there. It soon no longer met the requirements, which is why the Hōraiji Tetsudō , a subsidiary of Toyokawa Tetsudō, continued the construction of the route from Ōmi. From February 1, 1923, the line led to Mikawa-Kawai. As the starting point for several streets and bus routes, the place experienced an economic boom. A café and a hotel were integrated into the station at that time.

For a little over a decade, Mikawa-Kawai was the end of the line. Another railway company, the Sanshin Tetsudō , extended the route to Tōei on December 21, 1933, and four years later it extended to Tenryūkyō . The railway systems of both companies were nationalized on August 1, 1943 and from then on formed part of the continuous Iida line. The Ministry of Railways was responsible for the operation , from 1949 the Japanese State Railways . Since the transfer traffic ceased, the station lost significantly in importance in passenger traffic. From 1953 it served as a material store for the construction of the nearby Ure Dam . The building materials collected in a warehouse next to the train station were transported to the construction site by material cable cars.

Although the station was also a transshipment point for wood and had a crane for this purpose, freight traffic also fell sharply after the dam was completed in 1958. For cost reasons, the State Railroad abandoned cargo handling entirely on December 1, 1971 and also stopped checking in luggage on that day. The station has not been staffed since 1986. As part of the privatization of the state railway, it passed into the possession of the new company JR Central on April 1, 1987 .

Adjacent train stations

The train station in 1937

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Web links

Commons : Mikawa-Kawai Train Station  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JR 時刻表 2018 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2018). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2018.
  2. ↑ 交通史 編 . In: Education Committee of the Hōrai Municipality (ed.): 鳳 来 町 誌 . Hōrai 2003, p. 242 .
  3. ↑ a b c Tetsu Ishino (ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大事 典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 978-4-533-02980-6 , pp. 102 .
  4. ↑ 鳳 来 町 誌, pp. 16–20 (Appendix).
  5. ↑ 鳳 来 町 誌, pp. 109–110.