Motojuku Station (Aichi)

Motojuku Station 本宿駅
Motojuku Station
Location	Motojuku-cho, Okazaki, Aichi （愛知県岡崎市本宿町字一里山３０番地４ [1]） Japan
Operated by	Nagoya Railroad
Line(s)	Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1926
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	1,061,566[2]

Motojuku Station (本宿駅 Motojuku-eki) is a railway station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line located in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan. It is located 18.7 kilometers from the terminus of the Nagoya Main Line at Toyohashi. It provides access to the University of Human Environments and Hōzō Temple.

History

Motojuku Station was opened on April 1, 1926, as a station on the privately held Aichi Electric Railway. The Aichi Electric Railway was acquired by the Meitetsu Group on August 1, 1935. The station platforms and tracks were elevated on October 24, 1992.

Lines

• Nagoya Railroad
  • Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line

Layout

Motojuku Station has two island platforms serving four tracks.

Platforms

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

Adjacent stations

←		Service		→
Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line
Kō		Express (急行)		Miai
Kō		Semi Express (準急)		Fujikawa
Meiden Nagasawa		Local (普通)		Meiden Yamanaka

See also

• Media related to Motojuku Station (Aichi) at Wikimedia Commons

References

1. 本宿 [Motojuku] (in Japanese). Nagoya Railroad. April 1, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 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 November 30, 2010.

External links

• (Japanese) Meitetsu Station information

Coordinates: 34°53′35″N 137°15′36″E / 34.8931°N 137.26°E