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 ...

located in the town of Takatori,

Nara Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the ...

, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company,

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 ...

Line

Tsubosakayama Station is served by the

Yoshino Line The is a railway line in Nara Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu Railway. It connects in Kashihara and in Yoshino. All Express and Limited Express trains continue to and from Ōsaka Abenobashi Station on the ...

and is 3.9 kilometers from the starting point of the line at and 43.6 kilometers from

Layout

The station is a ground-level station with a

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, ...

and 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 ...

, with three tracks, allowing trains to pass each other and turn around. The effective length of the platforms is enough for four cars. The upbound platform (tracks 2 and 3) is an island platform, and track 3 is a dead end toward Yoshino, and is used for return trains bound for Kashihara-Jingumae. Only the remaining two tracks lead to Yoshino. The station building is on the east side, and is connected to the island platform by a level crossing.The station is unattended.

Platforms

Tsubosakayama station.jpg, Entrance

History

Tsubosakayama Station opened on 5 December 1923 on the Yoshino Railway. On 1 August 1929, the Osaka Electric Tramway merged with Yoshino Railway, and the station became part of the Osaka Electric Tramway Yoshino Line. On 15 March 1941, the line merged with the Sangu Express Railway and became the Kansai Express Railway's Osaka Line. .
Kintetsu Company History This line was merged with the Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1944 to form Kintetsu.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 655 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).Nara Prefecture Statistical Yearbook
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Surrounding area

* * Tsubosaka-dera * Kojima-dera * Ruin of

Takatori Castle was a Sengoku to Edo period ''yamajiro''-style Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Takatori, Nara Prefecture, in the Kinki region of Japan. Its ruins been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1953. ...

(one of the

100 Fine Castles of Japan The Japanese castle, castles in were chosen based on their significance in culture, history, and in their regions by the in 2006. In 2017, the Japanese Castle Association created an additional finest 100 castles list as Continued Top 100 Japane ...

) * Takatori Town Office * Takatori Post Office

References

External links

* Railway stations in Japan opened in 1923 Stations of Kintetsu Railway Railway stations in Nara Prefecture Takatori, Nara {{Nara-railstation-stub