Motojuku Station (Aichi)

Motojuku Station 本宿駅
Motojuku Station
Location
Prefecture	Aichi (See other stations in Aichi)
City	Okazaki
Neighborhood etc.	Motojuku-cho
Postal Code	441-3505
(in Japanese)	愛知県岡崎市本宿町字一里山３０番地４ [1]
History
Year opened	1926
Rail services
Operator(s)	Nagoya Railroad
Line(s)	Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Statistics	1,061,566[2] passengers/year 2006
There is a bus stop near this station

Motojuku Station (本宿駅, Motojuku-eki^?) is a train station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line located in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan. It is located 18.7 kilometers from the terminus of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi. It provides access to the University of Human Environments and Hōzō Temple.

History

Motojuku Station was opened on April 1, 1926 as a station on the privately-held Aichi Electric Railway. The Aichi Electric Railway was acquired by the Meitetsu Group on August 1, 1935. The station platforms and tracks were elevated on October 24, 1992.

Lines

• Nagoya Railroad
  • Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line

Layout

Motojuku Station has two island platforms serving four tracks.

Platforms

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

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Kō		Rapid Express (快速急行)		Miai
Kō		Express (急行)		Miai
Kō		Semi Express (準急)		Miai
Meiden-Nagasawa		Local (普通)		Meiden-Yamanaka

See Also

• Media related to Motojuku Station (Aichi) at Wikimedia Commons

External Links

• (Japanese) Meitetsu Station information

References

1. ^ "本宿 [Motojuku]" (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. http://www.meitetsu.co.jp/rosenzu/line01/eki/1173595_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°53′35″N 137°15′36″E / 34.8931°N 137.26°E / 34.8931; 137.26