270px, Yuya-Onsen Station in 1926 is a railway station in the city of

Shinshiro is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 44,581 in 17,691 households, and a population density of 89.3 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Shinshiro is located in east-cent ...

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, 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

Yuya-Onsen Station is served by the Iida Line, and is located 38.0 kilometers from the starting point of the line at

Toyohashi Station is an interchange railway station in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai) and the private railway operator Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu). Lines Toyohashi Station is served by the high-speed Tokaido Shi ...

Station layout

The station has a single

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 ...

serving one bi-directional track. The station building is unattended.

Adjacent stations

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Station history

Yuya-Onsen Station was established on February 1, 1923 as Yuya Signal on the now-defunct . On August 1, 1943, the Horaiji Railway and the Sanshin Railway were nationalized along with some other local lines to form the

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) Iida Line, and Yuya Signal was elevated to . Scheduled freight operations were discontinued in 1971. The station has been unattended since 1985. Along with its division and

privatization Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the

Surrounding area

*Yuya onsen hot spring resort

References

External links

{{Iida Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1923 Railway stations in Aichi Prefecture Iida Line Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Shinshiro, Aichi