is a railway station in the city of

Toyokawa is a city in the eastern part of Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 183,930 in 72,949 households, and a population density of 1,141 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Toyokawa, famous for its Toyoka ...

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, operated by

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

(JR Tōkai).

Lines

Nishi-Kozakai Station is served by the

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, and is located 298.4 kilometers from the southern terminus of the line at

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Station layout

The station has a two

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

s connected to the station building by a footbridge; however, track 1 is not in use. The station building has automated

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s and is staffed.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

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Station history

Nishi-Kozakai Station began operations on June 10, 1945 as on the

. It was elevated to a full station under its present name on August 1, 1948. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in 1972, and parcel services by 1984. With the dissolution and

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of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai). Automated

turnstile A turnstile (also called a turnpike, gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time. A turnstile can be configured to enforce one-way human traffic. In addition, a t ...

s using the

TOICA is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for JR Central railway network which was introduced in the Chūkyō Area (Greater Nagoya) of Japan on November 25, 2006. The name is an acronym for ''Tōkai IC Card''.IC Card A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC or IC card) is a physical electronic authentication device, used to control access to a resource. It is typically a plastic credit card-sized card with an embedded integrated circuit (IC) c ...

system came into operation from November 25, 2006.

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was introduced to the section of the Tōkaidō Line operated JR Central in March 2018; Nishi-Kozakai Station was assigned station number CA43.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 1213 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

*site of Ushikubo Castle * Ushikubo Elementary School

References

*Yoshikawa, Fumio. ''Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi''. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) .

External links

{{Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Central) Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897 Railway stations in Aichi Prefecture Tōkaidō Main Line Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Toyokawa, Aichi