Ekaku Station

Ekaku Station
永覚駅
Location Ekaku-cho 5-chome, Toyota, Aichi
(愛知県豊田市永覚町)
Japan
Operated by Aichi Loop Railway
Line(s) Aichi Loop Line
Other information
Station code 08
History
Opened 1976
Traffic
Passengers (2008) 443 daily

Ekaku Station (永覚駅 Ekaku-eki) is a railway station on the Aichi Loop Line, located in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture Japan. It is located 12.4 kilometers from the terminus of the Aichi Loop Line at Okazaki Station. It is nearby the Toyota Ekaku Apartments, a housing development for Toyota factory workers.[1]

History

Ekaku Station was opened on April 26, 1976 as a passenger station on the Japan National Railways (JNR) Okata Line connecting Okazaki with Shin-Toyota. At the time, the station had a single side platform. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under control of the JR-Tokai. The station was transferred to the third sector Aichi Loop Railway Company on January 31, 1988.

Lines

Layout

Ekaku Station has a single side platform for bidirectional traffic; there is no station building, but a roofed enclosure on the platform itself.

Platforms

1  Aichi Loop Line For Kitano-Masuzuka, Okazaki and Kōzōji

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Aichi Loop Railway
Aichi Loop Line
Mikawa-Kamigō - Suenohara

References

External links

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Coordinates: 35°01′38″N 137°08′20″E / 35.0272°N 137.1389°E / 35.0272; 137.1389


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