is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of

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, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West).

Lines

Iga-Ueno Station is served by the JR Kansai Main Line and is located 94.5 rail kilometres from the terminus of the line at Nagoya Station and 34.6 rail kilometers from Kameyama Station. It is also a terminus of the

Iga Railway Iga Line The is a railway line in Iga, Mie, Japan, operated by the private railway operator . The line connects Iga-Ueno Station with Iga-Kambe Station. The track and trains are owned by Kintetsu Railway, although the trains are operated by Iga Railway. ...

and is 16.6 rail kilometers from the opposing terminus of that line at

Iga-Kambe Station is an interchange passenger railway station in located in the city of Iga, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu Railway. Lines Iga-Kambe Station is served by the Kintetsu Osaka Line, and is located 75.5 rail ...

Layout

The station consists of a side platform which is cut away on one side to form a semi-

bay platform In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines. It is normal for bay platforms to be shorter than their associated through platforms. Overview Bay and islan ...

, and in an island platform with four tracks on the ground level, connected by a footbridge. The Iga Line track is electrified but the Kansai Line tracks are not. The station has a '' Midori no Madoguchi'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Iga-Ueno Station was opened on January 15, 1897 as . The line was nationalized on October 1, 1907, becoming part of the

Imperial 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 ...

(IGR), which became Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The station name was changed to its present name on September 11, 1916. Freight operations were discontinued from February 1, 1984. With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of West Japan Railway Company (JR-West). The Iga Railway began operations on August 8, 1916. Through a series of mergers, the line became part of the Kintetsu group by June 1, 1944, but was spun-out as an independent company again on October 1, 2007.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR station was used by an average of 525 passengers daily and the Iga Railway portion by 278 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

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*Kizu River *Tsuge River

References

External links

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Iga Railway official website
{{Iga Railway Iga Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897 Railway stations in Mie Prefecture Iga, Mie