Tajima Station (Nara)
Tajima Station 但馬駅 | |||||||||||||
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| Kintetsu Railway commuter rail station | |||||||||||||
 The exit / entrance of Tajima Station | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 263 Tajima, Miyake-sho, Shiki-gun, Nara-ken 636-0214 Japan | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°34′10″N 135°46′04″E / 34.569358°N 135.767875°E | ||||||||||||
| Owned by |  Kintetsu Railway | ||||||||||||
| Operated by | Kintetsu Railway | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | I Tawaramoto Line | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 3.0 km (1.9 miles) | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Train operators | Kintetsu Railway | ||||||||||||
| Connections | None | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||||
| Parking | None | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities |  Available | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||||
| Station code | I38 | ||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 5 May 1932 | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1948 | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | 431 daily | ||||||||||||
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Tajima Station (但馬駅, Tajima-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Miyake, Shiki District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company, Kintetsu Railway.[1]
Line
[edit]Tajima Station is served by the Tawaramoto Line and is 7.1 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Shin-Ōji. The station is serviced by Nara Kotsu Bus Lines' Route 9 bus at Ōwada Sta. Gate from Kataokadai 1-chome once a day, but the services is alighting only. It is also serviced by free shuttle wagon Sunamaru-go's North Route and West Route for Sōgō-fukushi-kaikan 10 shuttles a day.
Layout
[edit]The station is an above-ground station with one [[side platform] and one track, and both Shin-Oji and Nishi-Tawaramoto bound trains depart and arrive from the same platform. The effective length of the platform is three cars..The station is unattended.[2]
Platforms
[edit]| Platform level | Track | I Tawaramoto Line ■ Local for Nishi-Tawaramoto → ← I Tawaramoto Line ■ Local for Shin-Ōji |
Side platform, doors will open on the right for Nishi-Tawaramoto or on the left for Shin-Ōji  
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| Street level | Exit / entrance | |
History
[edit]The station opened on 5 May 1932 as a station on the Yamato Railway. It became a station on the Shigiikoma Electric Railway in 1961 due to a company merger, and became a station on Kintetsu Railway by a further merger on 1 October 1964.
Passenger statistics
[edit]In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 431 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
Surrounding area
[edit]- Miyake Town Hall
- Miyake Town Miyake Elementary Schoo
- Nara Prefectural Yamato-Koryo Senior High School
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
- ^ "但馬駅" [Tajima Station]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ Nara Prefecture Statistical Yearbook
External links
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