is a union passenger

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in the city of

Matsusaka is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 157,235 in 66,018 households and a population density of 250 persons per km². The total area of the city is . The city is famous for Matsusaka beef. Geography ...

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 ...

, operated jointly by

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(JR Central) and

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Lines

Matsusaka Station is served by the JR

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 34.6 rail kilometers from the

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of the line at Kameyama Station. It is also a terminus for the 43.5 kilometer JR

Meishō Line The is a rural, regional railway line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) in Mie Prefecture, Japan, connecting Matsusaka station in Matsusaka and Ise-Okitsu station in Tsu. The line takes its name from the kanji characters of the c ...

Ise-Okitsu Station is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Tsu, Mie, Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai). Lines Ise-Okitsu Station is served by the Meishō Line, and is 43.5 rail kilometers from the ...

. The station is also served by the Kintetsu Yamada Line and 8.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of that line at

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Station layout

Matsusaka Station has a total of five

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s serving seven tracks. Of these, the JR portion of the station uses one

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and two

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s and the Kintetsu portion has one side platform and one island platform. The platforms are connected footbridges.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Matsusaka Station opened on December 31, 1894 as a station on Sangu Railway Line. The line was nationalized on October 1, 1907, becoming the

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of the

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(JGR) on October 12, 1909. On August 17, 1912, the Mie Electric Railway began operations at Matsusaka Station. The Meishō Line began operations from August 25, 1929. On March 27, 1930, Sangu Kyuko Electric Railway Co. connected to Matsusaka Station. A new station building was completed on December 3, 1937. Sangu Kyuko was acquired by Osaka Electric Railway Co. in March 1941, and renamed Kansai Kyuko Railway Co., subsequently merging with the Nankai Railway to form Kintetsu in 1944. The station was transferred to the control of the

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(JNR) Kisei Main Line on July 15, 1959. A new station building was completed in November 1962. Mie Electric Railway went out of business in 1964. All freight operations were discontinued in 1984. The station was absorbed into the JR Central network upon the

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of the JNR on April 1, 1987.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 1,702 passengers daily (boarding passengers only) and the Kintetsu portion of the station was used by an average of 7,533 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Matsusaka City Hall *Matsusaka Park (former site of

Matsusaka Castle was a Japanese castle (now in ruins) located in the city of Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Throughout most of the Edo period, Matsusaka Castle was a secondary administrative center for the Kishu-Tokugawa clan, ''daimyō'' of Kishū Domain. I ...

) *Matsusaka Technical High School

References

External links

JR Central: Matsusaka Station
{{Kintetsu Yamada Line Toba Line Shima Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1893 Railway stations in Mie Prefecture Matsusaka, Mie