Meiden Akasaka Station

Meiden Akasaka Station 名電赤坂駅
A view of the station
Location	Akasaka-cho, Toyokawa, Aichi （愛知県豊川市赤坂町松本３５番地２ [1]） Japan
Operated by	Nagoya Railroad
Line(s)	Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1926
Previous names	Aiden Akasaka (until 1938)
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	167,207[2]

Meiden Akasaka Station (名電赤坂駅 Meiden Akasaka-eki) is a railway station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line locatedin Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan. It is located 12.5 kilometers from the junction of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi.

History

Meiden Akasaka Station was opened on April 1, 1926 as Aiden Akasaka Station (名電赤坂駅 Aiden-Akasaka-eki) on the Aichi Electric Railway. On April 1, 1935, the Aichi Electric Railway merged with the Nagoya Railroad (the forerunner of present-day Meitetsu). The station was renamed to its present name on December 1, 1938. The station has been unattended since 1971.

Lines

• Nagoya Railroad
  • Nagoya Main Line

Layout

Platforms

1	■ Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	For Higashi Okazaki, Meitetsu Nagoya, and Inuyama
2	■ Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line	For Toyokawa-inari and Toyohashi

Adjacent stations

Meiden-Akasaka Station has two elevated opposed side platforms.

←		Service		→
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Goyu		Local (普通)		Meiden Nagasawa

See also

• Media related to Meiden Akasaka Station at Wikimedia Commons

External links

• (Japanese) Meitetsu Station information

References

1. 名電赤坂 [Meiden-Akasaka] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
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.

Coordinates: 34°51′34″N 137°18′40″E / 34.8595°N 137.3111°E