270px, Platforms is a passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in located in the city of Tsu,

Mie Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Mie Prefecture has a population of 1,781,948 () and has a geographic area of . Mie Prefecture is bordered by Gifu Prefecture to the north, Shiga Prefecture an ...

, Japan, operated by the private railway operator

Kintetsu Railway , referred to as and officially Kinki-Nippon Railway, is a Japanese passenger railway company, managing infrastructure and operating passenger train service. Its railway system is the largest in Japan, excluding Japan Railways Group. The railw ...

Lines

Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station is served by the

Osaka Line The is a railway line in Japan owned by Kintetsu Railway, connecting Osaka and Mie Prefecture via Nara Prefecture. The line is the longest double-tracked railway of non-JR operators. Together with the Nagoya Line, this line forms the route for ...

, and is located 95.4 rail kilometers from the starting point of the line at

Ōsaka Uehommachi Station is a railway station in Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Japan, served by the Kintetsu Railway's Osaka, Nara, and Namba Lines. Trains on the Nara Line arrive at and depart from an underground platform. The station is connected to Tanimachi Kyuchome Station ...

Station layout

The station was consists of two opposed

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, ...

s. The station is built on the side of a hill, with the platforms at a higher elevation than the station building.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station opened on November 19, 1930, as 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.Kintetsu Company History
/ref> This line was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on June 1, 1944, to form Kintetsu. The station name was changed to its present name on March 1, 1965. On December 18, 1973, due to failure of an ATS system, a runaway train derailed in the Aoyama Tunnel near this station, with 25 fatalities.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 554 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Sakakibara Onsen *Hojuyama Daikannon-ji *Louvre Sculpture Museum *Tsu City Hakusan Folk Museum

References

External links

Kintetsu: Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station
{{Kintetsu Osaka Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1930 Railway stations in Mie Prefecture Stations of Kintetsu Railway Tsu, Mie