Okkawa Station

Okkawa Station 乙川駅
Okkawa Station
Location
Prefecture	Aichi (See other stations in Aichi)
Town	Handa
Neighborhood etc.	Okkawa-cho 112-banchi
Postal code	475-0054
(in Japanese)	愛知県半田市乙川町112番地
History
Year opened	1933
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR Central
Line(s)	Taketoyo Line
Statistics	1102 passengers/day 2008

Okkawa Station (乙川駅, Okkawa-eki) is a train station operated by the Central Japan Railway Company in Handa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The station is 12.8 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Taketoyo Line at Ōbu Station.

History

Okkawa Station was opened on December 7, 1933 as a passenger station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR). Freight operations commenced from April 1, 1944. The JGR became the Japan National Railway (JNR) after World War II. Freight operations were discontinued from November 15, 1975 and small parcel operations from February 1, 1984. With the privatization and dissolution of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the Central Japan Railway Company. The station has been unattended since March 1989. The station building was rebuilt in March 2006. Automatic turnstiles were installed in May 1992, and the TOICA system of magnetic fare cards was implemented in November 2006.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Taketoyo Line

Layout

Okkawa Station has two opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1	■Taketoyo Line	for Ōbu
2	■Taketoyo Line	for Taketoyo

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Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Central Japan Railway Company
Taketoyo Line
Kamezaki		-		Handa