Toyohashi train station
| Toyohashi ( 豊 橋 ) | |
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 East entrance of the station (July 2011)
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 11 |
| abbreviation | CA42 (JR Central) / NH01 (Meitetsu) |
| opening | September 1, 1888 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Toyohashi |
| prefecture | Aichi |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 34 ° 45 ′ 47 " N , 137 ° 22 ′ 55" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 8 m |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Toyohashi Station ( Jap. 豊橋駅 , Toyohashi-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshu , operated by the railways JR Central and Nagoya Tetsudo . It is located in Aichi Prefecture, Toyohashi City area . Shinkansen high-speed trains stop here , which is why the station is an important transport hub. It is connected to the neighboring Shin-Toyohashi Station .
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Toyohashi is a combined through and terminus station through which two of the most important railway lines in Japan, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and the Tōkaidō main line , run parallel. The Iida line branches off from the latter four kilometers from the station . The JR Central railway company is responsible for operating all three lines . Toyohashi is also the terminus of the Nagoya Tetsudō (Meitetsu) operated Meitetsu Nagoya main line . The Atsumi line of the Toyohashi Tetsudo railway company begins in the neighboring Shin-Toyohashi station .
On the Shinkansen high-speed line , Toyohashi is served twice per hour and direction by Kodama trains, which stop at all intermediate stations. In addition, there are Hikari trains nine times a day that skip individual intermediate stations. Nozomi trains, however, do not stop. The station is an important operational separation point of the Tōkaidō main line, between the sections Toyohashi-Maibara in the west and Toyohashi-Atami in the east. Almost all trains start or end here, but there are only a few continuous connections. Regional trains run eastwards to Hamamatsu and Shizuoka two to four times an hour . Westwards in the direction of Nagoya and Gifu , four different express trains carry the bulk of the regional express traffic. What they all have in common is that they only stop at certain stations, but the number of stops varies. There are also regional trains with stops at all train stations. This results in a total of four to nine trains per hour.
Due to the limited capacity at the eastern end of the Meitetsu Nagoya main line (parallel to the Iida line), Meitetsu does not operate regional trains from Toyohashi, but only express and express trains to Meitetsu Nagoya and Meitetsu Gifu . Nevertheless, this results in an approximate ten-minute cycle.
The only line of the Toyohashi tram begins in the eastern forecourt of the station . There is also the central bus station , which is served by numerous lines of the Toyotetsu Bus company. There is also a stop for long-distance bus services from Willer Express , Jam Jam Express and Heisei Enterprise . Two other Toyotetsu Bus lines and a “Community Bus” operate from the western station forecourt.
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The station is in the central district of Ekimae-Ōdōri. The system is oriented from southeast to northwest and is divided into three parts. In the far west is the Shinkansen section with a central and a side platform . The high-speed trains stop on three tracks and pass on two more. In contrast to most Shinkansen stations in Japan, the tracks are not laid on a viaduct, but at ground level. Eight tracks are available for passenger traffic on the conventional rail network. Trains of the Tōkaidō main line use two middle and one side platforms on the east side, trains of the Iida line and the Meitetsu Nagoya main line share three butt-ending tracks in the terminus section. Over a dozen additional tracks are used as storage facilities or for passing freight trains. There is a railway depot about half a kilometer to the north, and JR Freight handles freight traffic in the container terminal located about two kilometers to the north .
There are two connected reception buildings . The one on the east side has five floors, where the “Kalmia” shopping center ( カ ル ミ ア ) is located. It is named after the generic name of the bay rose , the city's official plant symbol . The mall is operated by a subsidiary of JR Central and contains around 100 stores. Part of this building is a 13-story tower with a hotel . The second station building has the shape of a riding station , which extends over the entire facility and provides a connection to the Shinkansen tracks and the western station forecourt.
In 2017, the station had an average of 46,684 passengers a day. Of these, 29,045 went to JR Central and 17,639 to Nagoya Tetsudō.
Tracks
| 1/2 | ▉ Iida line | Toyokawa • Iida |
| 3 | ▉ Nagoya main line | Meitetsu Nagoya • Meitetsu Gifu |
| 4th | ▉ Main Tōkaidō line | Okazaki • Nagoya |
| ▉ Iida line | Toyokawa • Iida | |
| 5-8 | ▉ Main Tōkaidō line | Okazaki • Nagoya |
| ▉ Main Tōkaidō line | Hamamatsu • Shizuoka | |
| 11/12 | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Shin-Yokohama • Tokyo |
| 13 | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Nagoya • Shin-Osaka |
history
Together with the Ōbu - Hamamatsu section of the Tōkaidō main line , the state railway administration opened the station on September 1, 1886. It was several hundred meters southwest of the then city center on the territory of the neighboring community of Hanada. The city expanded rapidly and within a few years a new business district was built near the train station. Since the incorporation of Hanada on July 15, 1906, the station has belonged to the city area. The railway company Toyokawa Tetsudō opened on July 15, 1897 a railway line from Toyohashi to Toyokawa , the first section of the later Iida line . It initially used the state train station, but then built its own terminus immediately north of it. This went into operation on December 11, 1899 and was called Yoshida ( 吉田 ).
From 1908 the 15th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army was stationed in Toyohashi, which led to a sharp increase in passenger and freight traffic. The Ministry of Railways built from 1911 to 1916 to become too small station striking out. The number of users rose unabated, so that the station had to be expanded again after only eleven years. From July 14, 1925, the Toyohashi tram ran from the station forecourt. The railway company Aichi Denki Tetsudō (taken up in Nagoya Tetsudō in 1935 ) extended today's Meitetsu Nagoya main line to the Yoshida terminus on June 1, 1927. The travel time between Toyohashi and Nagoya was shortened by about three quarters of an hour, whereupon the Tōkaidō main line lost a large part of the regional traffic to the competition. From October 1, 1927, the Atsumi Line ran from the neighboring Shin-Toyohashi Station to the Atsumi Peninsula . From 1940 this line also belonged to Nagoya Tetsudō.
With the nationalization of Toyokawa Tetsudō on August 1, 1943, the Yoshida terminus was integrated into Toyohashi station. There was now a direct transition to the Nagoya main line. An American area bombing on June 19 and 20, 1945 destroyed large parts of the city. The station was also affected: while the station building burned down completely, the depot remained undisturbed, so that traffic could be resumed on all lines within three days. After years of using makeshift barracks, the new reception building was opened on May 14, 1950. It was the first so-called “ People's Station ” ( 民衆 駅 , Minshū-eki ) in all of Japan - a station at which the Japanese State Railways shared the building with shops of local traders.
Since the opening of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, high-speed trains have stopped in Toyohashi. An additional riding station was built to open up the Shinkansen platforms on the west side . Since the state railroad assumed a significant population growth and the station would no longer meet the requirements, they built a new reception building with over 100 shops and put it into operation on July 1, 1970. For cost reasons, the state railway stopped checking in luggage on November 1, 1986. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the ownership of the new company JR Central on April 1, 1987 . Starting in 1994, this replaced the equestrian train station with a new building with expanded retail space and completed it on September 16, 1996. Two years later, the redesign of the forecourt was completed, including the rearrangement of bus and tram stops.
Adjacent train stations
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 Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line Nagoya Tetsudō (Meitetsu) |
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 Toyohashi Toyohashi Tetsudō Tram |
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literature
- Toyohashi History Commission (ed.): 豊 橋 市 史 . tape 3 . Toyohashi 1983.
- Toyohashi History Commission (ed.): 豊 橋 市 史 . tape 4 . Toyohashi 1987.
- Nagoya Tetsudō (Ed.): 名古屋 鉄 道 百年 史 . (100 years of Nagoya Tetsudō history). Nagoya 1994.
Web links
- JR Central Station Information (Japanese)
- Nagoya Tetsudō station information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen. (Timetable Tōkaidō-Shinkansen Toyohashi). shinkansen.co.jp, 2018, accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ JR 時刻表 2016 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2018). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2018.
- ↑ 豊 橋 駅 発 時刻表. Nagoya Tetsudō, 2018, accessed March 3, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ Ryōzō Kawashima (Ed.): 東海 道 ラ イ ン 全線 ・ 全 駅 ・ 全 配線 . tape 4 . Kōdansha , Bunkyō 2009, ISBN 978-4-06-270014-6 , pp. 6-7 .
- ↑ Kalmia. Toyohashi Station Building Co., Ltd., 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 10 運輸 • 通信. (PDF, 143 kB) In: 豊 橋 市 統計 書 平 成 30 年 版 (Statistical Yearbook 2017). Toyohashi City, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b c d e Tetsu Ishino (ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大 辞典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 4-533-02980-9 .
- ↑ 豊 橋 市 史. Volume 3, pp. 166-167.
- ↑ 豊 橋 市 史. Volume 3, pp. 175-176.
- ↑ Nagoya Tetsudō (Ed.): 名古屋 鉄 道 百年 史. Pp. 143-145.
- ↑ 豊 橋 市 史. Volume 4, pp. 783-784.
- ↑ Toyohashi City War Damage Commission (ed.): 豊 橋 市 戦 災 復興 誌 . Toyohashi 1958, p. 277 .
- ↑ 豊 橋 市 史. Volume 4, pp. 468-471.