- Meitetsu Mikawa Line
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Meitetsu Mikawa Line
Overview Type Commuter rail Locale Aichi Prefecture Termini Sanage
HekinanStations 23 Daily ridership 73,556 (2003)[1] Website Meitetsu (Japanese) Operation Opened October 31, 1924 (entire line)[2] Operator(s) Nagoya Railroad Technical Line length 39.8 km (24.73 mi) Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) Electrification 1,500 V Overhead catenary Operating speed 80 km/h (50 mph) The Mikawa Line (三河線 Mikawa-sen) is a railway line in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) between Sanage Station in Toyota and Hekinan Station in Hekinan.
All trains on this line operate as Local trains and stop at every station. Some smaller stations have only a single track.
The line was originally owned by Mikawa Railroad, but it merged with Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) in June 1941.[3]
Contents
Stations
Station name Japanese Distance
(km)Number of tracks Location Sanage 猿投 0.0 2 Toyota Aichi Hiratobashi 平戸橋 1.1 1 Koshido 越戸 2.2 2 Umetsubo 梅坪 4.2 >2 Toyotashi 豊田市 5.6 2 Uwagoromo 上挙母 7.4 2 Tsuchihashi 土橋 10.2 2 Takemura 竹村 12.8 2 Wakabayashi 若林 15.1 2 Mikawa Yatsuhashi 三河八橋 17.5 2 Mikawa Chiryū 三河知立 20.6 2 Chiryū Chiryū 知立 21.3 >2 Shigehara 重原 23.5 1 Kariya 刈谷 25.2 >2 Kariya Kariyashi 刈谷市 26.8 1 Ogakie 小垣江 29.4 2 Yoshihama 吉浜 31.4 1 Takahama Mikawa Takahama 三河高浜 33.3 2 Takahama Minato 高浜港 34.3 1 Kitashinkawa 北新川 36.1 2 Hekinan Shinkawamachi 新川町 37.1 2 Hekinan Chūō 碧南中央 38.2 1 Hekinan 碧南 39.8 2 See also
- List of railway lines in Japan
Media related to Meitetsu Mikawa Line at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ^ （4）路線別1日当たり輸送人員 (Report). Aichi Prefecture. 2007. http://www.pref.aichi.jp/0000008567.html. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
- ^ 曽根, 悟 (September 2010), (in Japanese)週刊朝日百科, 週刊歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 (Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc.) (9): 3, ISBN 9784023401396
- ^ 佐藤, 信之 (19 June 2004) (in Japanese), 地下鉄の歴史首都圏・中部・近畿圏, グランプリ出版, p. 129, ISBN 4-87687-260-0
External links
- Meitetsu Mikawa Line information (Japanese)
Categories:- Lines of Nagoya Railroad
- Rail transport in Aichi Prefecture
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