Funamachi Station

Funamachi Station 船町駅
Funamachi Station
Location	Yokosuka-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi （愛知県豊橋市北島町北島） Japan
Operated by	JR Central
Line(s)	Iida Line
History
Opened	1927
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	169 daily

Funamachi Station (船町駅 Funamachi-eki) is a railway station on the Iida Line in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 1.5 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Iida Line at Toyohashi Station.

Station History

Funamachi Station was established on June 1, 1927 as Shin-Funamachi Temporary Stop (新船町停留場 Shin-Funamachi Teiryujo) on the now-defunct Toyokawa Railway (豊川鉄道 Toyokawa Tetsudō) connecting Toyohashi with Toyokawa. ^[1] On August 1, 1943, the Toyokawa Railway was nationalized along with some other local lines to form the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Iida Line and Funamachi became a full station at that time.^[2] The station has been unattended since April 1985. Along with its division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Iida Line

Layout

Funamachi Station has two side platforms built on an embankment, connected by an underpass crossing. The area in between the side platforms is filled in, forming what is effectively an island platform.

Platforms

1	■ Iida Line	For Toyokawa and Iida
2	■ Iida Line	For Toyohashi

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Iida Line
Limited Express "Inaji" (特急「伊那路」): no stop
Toyohashi		Local (普通)		Shimoji

External links

• (Japanese) Iida Line station information

References

1. 鷲田, 鉄也 (September 2010), 週刊朝日百科, 週刊歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 (in Japanese) (Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc.) (8), pp. 20, 21, 22, ISBN 978-4-02-340138-9 Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese) II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 99. ISBN 4533029809.

Coordinates: 34°46′33″N 137°22′24″E / 34.7759°N 137.3732°E