Meiden-Akasaka Station

Meiden-Akasaka Station 名電赤坂駅
A view of the station
Location
Prefecture	Aichi (See other stations in Aichi)
City	Toyokawa
Neighborhood etc.	Akasaka-cho
Postal Code	441-0202
(in Japanese)	愛知県豊川市赤坂町松本３５番地２ [1]
History
Year opened	1925
Former name	Aiden-Akasaka Station
Present name since	1935
Rail services
Operator(s)	Nagoya Railroad
Line(s)	Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Statistics	167,207[2] passengers/year 2006
There is a bus stop near this station

Meiden-Akasaka Station (名電赤坂駅, Meiden Akasaka-eki^?) is a train station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line locatedin Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan. It is located 12.5 kilometers from the junction of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi.

History

Meiden-Akasaka Station was opened on April 1, 1925 as Aiden-Akasaka Station (名電赤坂駅, Aiden-Akasaka-eki^?) on the Aichi Electric Railway. On April 1, 1935, the Aichi Electric Railway merged with the Nagoya Railway (the forerunner of present-day Meitetsu). The station was renamed to its present name on August 1, 1935. The station has been unattended since 1971.

Lines

• Nagoya Railroad
  • Nagoya Main Line

Layout

Platforms

1	■Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	For Higashi-Okazaki, Meitetsu Nagoya, and Inuyama
2	■Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	For Toyokawa-Inari and Toyohashi

Adjacent stations

Meiden-Akasaka Station has two elevated opposed side platforms.

«		Service		»
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Goyu		Local (普通)		Meiden-Nagasawa

See Also

• Media related to Meiden-Akasaka Station at Wikimedia Commons

External links

• (Japanese) Meitetsu Station information

References

1. ^ "名電赤坂 [Meiden-Akasaka]" (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. http://www.meitetsu.co.jp/rosenzu/line01/eki/1173589_1188.asp. Retrieved 10 December 2010. 
2. ^ "第10章　運輸・通信 （平成20年度刊愛知県統計年鑑） [Statistics of Aichi in Year 20 of the Heisei Era]" (in Japanese). Aichi Prefecture. 2008. http://www.pref.aichi.jp/0000022354.html. Retrieved 30 November 2010. 

Coordinates: 34°51′34″N 137°18′40″E / 34.8595°N 137.3111°E / 34.8595; 137.3111