Higashi-Aoyama Station

Higashi-Aoyama Station (東青山駅, Higashi-Aoyama-eki) is a railway station on the Osaka Line in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu. Higashi-Aoyama Station is 91.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Ōsaka Uehommachi Station.[1]

Higashi-Aoyama Station

東青山駅
Higashi-Aoyama Station
Location1074 Uenomura, Tsu, Mie
（三重県津市白山町上ノ村1074）
Japan
Operated byKintetsu Railway
Line(s)Osaka Line
History
Opened1930
Passengers
FY201639 daily
Higashi-Aoyama Station,early morning

Lines

Station layout

Higashi-Aoyama Station has two Island platforms serving two tracks each. The station is unattended.

Platforms
1, 2 ■ Osaka Line for Ise-Nakagawa, Ujiyamada, Kashikojima, and Nagoya
3, 4 ■ Osaka Line forNabari , Yamato-Yagi and Osaka Uehommachi

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Osaka Line
Nishi-Aoyama   Local   Sakakibara-Onsenguchi
Nishi-Aoyama   Express   Sakakibara-Onsenguchi
Rapid Express: Does not stop at this station

History

Higashi-Aoyama Station opened on December 20, 1930 as a station on the Sangu Kyuko Electric Railway. After merging with Osaka Electric Kido on March 15, 1941, the line became the Kansai Kyuko Railway's Osaka Line.[2] This line was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on June 1, 1944 to form Kintetsu.[2] On October 25, 1971, due to failure of an ATS system in Aoyama Tunnel, a runaway limited express train derailed in Sodani Tunnel near this station and collided head on with another one, with 25 fatalities (article in Japanese). On November 25, 1975, after a landslide obliterated part of the tracks between this station and Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station, the tracks were rerouted slightly, a new tunnel was constructed, and a new station building was built. On February 27, 2009 a derailment of a local train occurred at this station, but without fatalities.

References
  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. Kintetsu Company History

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