is a passenger

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in located in the town of Taki, Taki District,

Mie Prefecture is a 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 and Kyoto Prefecture to ...

, Japan, operated by

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(JR Tōkai).

Lines

Ōka Station is served by the

Kisei Main Line The is a railway line that parallels the coastline of the Kii Peninsula in Japan between Mie Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture. The name takes the ''kanji'' characters from the names of the old provinces of and . The line is operated by Ce ...

, and is located from the

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of the line at Kameyama Station.

Station layout

The station was originally built with a single

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serving bidirectional traffic; however it was converted to two opposed

s connected by a footbridge. There is no station building. The station is unattended.

Platforms

History

Ōka Station opened on 20 March 1923, as a station on the

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(JGR) Kisei-East Line. The line was extended on to Kawazoe Station on 20 November 1923. The JGR became the

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(JNR) after World War II, and the line was renamed the Kisei Main Line on 15 July 1959. The station has been unattended since 21 December 1983. The station was absorbed into the JR Central network upon the

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of the JNR on 1 April 1987.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 233 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* Ōka Jinja *Taki Town Hall *Taki Town Matsusaka City School Association Taki Junior High School *Taki Industrial Park *Sharp Taki Factory *Mie Prefectural Oka High School

References

External links

JR Central timetable
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