is a passenger

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located in the city of Sanuki,

Kagawa Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Pr ...

, Japan. It is operated by

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and has the station number "T18".

Lines

Orange Town Station is served by the JR Shikoku

Kōtoku Line The is a railway line in northeastern Shikoku, Japan that connects the prefectural capitals Takamatsu ( Kagawa) and Tokushima (Tokushima). Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku) owns and operates the line, whose name comes from the characters in ...

and is located 18.9 km from the beginning of the line at

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. Besides local services, the Uzushio limited express between , and also stops at the station.

Layout

The station consists of an

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

serving two tracks. The station building of modernistic concrete design is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room. Access to the island platform from the station building is by means of a footbridge which also gives access to the other of the tracks. File:JRShikoku-Kotoku-line-T18-Orange-town-station-platform-20100803.jpg, A view of the station platform. The station building can be seen to the left. The footbridge extends to the right, permitting access to the station from the other side of the tracks.

History

Orange Town Station was opened on 14 March 1998 as an added station on the existing

by JRShikoku.

Surrounding area

*Orange Town Housing Area

References

External links

Station Timetable
Railway stations in Kagawa Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1998 Sanuki, Kagawa Kōtoku Line {{Kagawa-railstation-stub