is a passenger

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located in the city of

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Tokushima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north, E ...

, Japan. It is operated by

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and has the station number "B12".

Lines

Gaku Station is served by the Tokushima Line and is 42.7 km from the beginning of the line at . Only local trains stop at the station.

Layout

The station consists of two opposed

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s serving 2 tracks. The station building has been unstaffed since 2010 and serves only as a waiting room. Access to the opposite platform is by means of a footbridge. A siding branches off track 1 and ends near the station building.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Gaku Station was opened on 23 December 1899 by the privately-run Tokushima Railway as an intermediate station when the track was extended from to . When the company was nationalized on 1 September 1907Ţ,

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR) took over control of the station and operated it as part of the Tokushima Line (later the Tokushima Main Line). With the

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(JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Shikoku. On 1 June 1988, the line was renamed the Tokushima Line.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 268 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

Yoshino River The Yoshino River (吉野川 ''Yoshino-gawa'') is a river on the island of Shikoku, Japan. It is long and has a watershed of . It is the second longest river in Shikoku (slightly shorter than the Shimanto), and is the only river whose watershe ...

Japan National Route 192 National Route 192 is a national highway of Japan connecting Saijō, Ehime and Tokushima, Tokushima is the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 249,865 in 122085 househo ...

References

External links

JR Shikoku timetable
{{Tokushima Line Railway stations in Tokushima Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1899 Yoshinogawa, Tokushima