is a railway station on the

Nara Line The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto metropolitan area, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Its official termini are Kizu Station in Kizugawa and Kyōto Station in Kyoto, within Kyoto Prefecture; however ...

Fushimi-ku, Kyoto is one of the eleven Wards of Kyoto, wards in the Municipalities of Japan, city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Jinja (shrine), Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down ...

, Japan, operated by

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...

(JR West). The station number is JR-D03. It is the closest station to

Fushimi Inari-taisha is the head shrine of the ''kami'' Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari which is above sea level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines ...

Shrine.

Layout

The station has two

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 ...

s, serving one track each.

Platforms

File:Platform of Inari station.JPG, Inari Station platforms in January 2008

Passenger statistics

According to the Kyoto Prefecture statistical report, the average number of passengers per day is as follows.

Adjacent stations

*This station is an additional stop of Miyakoji Rapid Service from 1 January until 4.

Surrounding area

Inari Station serves visitors to several nearby sites. Among these are the major Shinto shrine

and the Fukakusa campus of

Ryukoku University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as a school for Buddhist priests of the Nishi Hongan-ji denomination in 1639, and became a secularized university in 1876. The university's professors and students founded the literary ...

. Although transfer is not available, and

Fushimi-Inari Station is a railway station located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, on the Keihan Electric Railway Keihan Main Line. Layout *This station has 2 side platforms with a track each. Surroundings *Fushimi Inari-taisha * Inari Station ( ...

s on the

Keihan Main Line The is a railway line in Japan operated by Keihan Electric Railway. The line runs between Sanjō Station in Kyoto and Yodoyabashi Station in Osaka. There are through services to the Keihan Ōtō Line and the Keihan Nakanoshima Line. Trains from ...

are close by. Students and staff members can access Ritsumeikan Junior & Senior High School and Kyoto Municipal Fushimi Technical High School (the setting of '' School Wars: HERO'') from Inari Station.

Sources

This article incorporates material from 稲荷駅 (''Inari Eki'') in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved 5 January 2008.

External links

* {{JR Nara Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1879 Railway stations in Kyoto Prefecture Stations of West Japan Railway Company