Sakakibara-Onsenguchi_Station

Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station

Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station

Railway station in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station (Japanese: 榊原温泉口駅, Hepburn: Sakakibara-Onsenguchi-eki) is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu Railway.

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Platforms

Lines

Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station is served by the Osaka Line, and is located 95.4 rail kilometers from the starting point of the line at Ōsaka Uehommachi Station.[1]

Station layout

The station was consists of two opposed side platforms. The station is built on the side of a hill, with the platforms at a higher elevation than the station building.[citation needed]

Platforms

1 ■ Osaka Line for Ise-Nakagawa, Ujiyamada, Kashikojima, and Nagoya
2 ■ Osaka Line for Nabari , Yamato-Yagi , Osaka Uehommachi and Osaka Namba

Adjacent stations

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History

Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station opened on November 19, 1930, as Sada Station (佐田駅, Sada-eki) on the Sangu Express Electric Railway. After merging with Osaka Electric Kido on March 15, 1941, the line became the Kansai Express Railway's Osaka Line.[2] This line was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on June 1, 1944, to form Kintetsu.[2] The station name was changed to its present name on March 1, 1965.[citation needed] On December 18, 1973, due to failure of an ATS system, a runaway train derailed in the Aoyama Tunnel near this station, with 25 fatalities.[citation needed]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 554 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]

Surrounding area

  • Sakakibara Onsen
  • Hojuyama Daikannon-ji
  • Louvre Sculpture Museum
  • Tsu City Hakusan Folk Museum

See also

References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Kintetsu Company History
  3. [3]
    三重県統計書 [Mie Prefectural Statistics] (in Japanese). Japan: Mie Prefecture. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.

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