Mihata Station

Mihata Station 美旗駅
Mihata, August 2007
Location	1891 Mihata-cho Naka ichi-ban, Nabari, Mie （三重県名張市美旗町中一番1891） Japan
Operated by	Kintetsu Railway
Line(s)	Osaka Line
History
Opened	1930
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010)	1147 daily

Mihata Station (美旗駅 Mihata-eki) is a railway station on the Osaka Line in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu. Mihata Station is 73.1 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Ōsaka Uehommachi Station.^[1]

Lines

• Kintetsu Railway
  • Osaka Line

Station layout

Mihata Station has two opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1	■ Osaka Line	for Ise-Nakagawa, Matsusaka, Ujiyamada, Toba, Kashikojima, Tsu and Nagoya
2	■ Osaka Line	for Nabari, Yamato-Yagi, Osaka Uehommachi, Osaka Namba and Kobe

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Osaka Line
Kikyōgaoka		Local		Iga-Kambe
Kikyōgaoka		Express		Iga-Kambe
Kikyōgaoka		Rapid Express		Iga-Kambe

History

Mihata Station opened on November 19, 1930 as a station on the Sangu Express Electric Railway. After merging with Osaka Electric Kido on March 15, 1941, the line became the Kansai Express Railway's Osaka Line. ^[2] This line was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on June 1, 1944 to form Kintetsu.^[2]

References

1. Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
2. Kintetsu Company History

External links

• (Japanese) Kintetsu: Mihata Station

Coordinates: 34°39′47″N 136°08′00″E / 34.6630°N 136.1333°E