Owari Yokosuka Station

Owari Yokosuka Station 尾張横須賀駅
Facade of the elevated station
Location	Yabumachi, Tōkai, Aichi （愛知県東海市養父町北反田１３番地２[1]） Japan
Operated by	Nagoya Railroad
Line(s)	Tokoname Line
History
Opened	1912
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	986,979[2]

Owari Yokosuka Station (尾張横須賀駅 Owari Yokosuka-eki) is a railway station operated by Meitetsu's Tokoname Line located in Tōkai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 13.7 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Jingū-mae Station. ^[1] This station provides access to Seijoh University.

History

Owari Yokosuka Station was opened on February 18, 1912 as a station on the Aichi Electric Railway Company. The Aichi Electric Railway became part of the Meitetsu group on August 1, 1935. The station was relocated to its present address in March 1990, and work to elevate the tracks was completed in November 2002. ^[3]

Lines

• Meitetsu
  • Tokoname Line

Layout

Owari-Yokosuka Station has two elevated opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1	■ Tokoname Line	For Tokoname and Central Japan International Airport
2	■ Tokoname Line	For Ōtagawa and Jingū-mae

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Tokoname Line
Ōtagawa		μSKY Limited Express (departing from Central Japan Int'l Airport before 9 a.m.)		Asakura
Ōtagawa		Limited Express		Asakura
Ōtagawa		Rapid Express		Asakura
Ōtagawa		Express		Teramoto
Ōtagawa		Semi-Express		Teramoto
Ōtagawa		Local		Teramoto

References

1. 尾張横須賀 [OWARI YOKOSUKA] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
2. 第10章　運輸・通信 （平成20年度刊愛知県統計年鑑） [Statistics of Aichi in Year 20 of the Heisei Era] (in Japanese). Aichi Prefecture. 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
3. 鷲田, 鉄也 (September 2010), クロニクル常滑線, 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.) (9), p. 9, ISBN 978-4-02-340139-6

External links

• Official web page (Japanese)
• Media related to Owari Yokosuka Station at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 35°00′37″N 136°53′09″E / 35.0103°N 136.8859°E