is a passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

located in the city of Ōsakasayama,

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...

, Japan, operated by the private railway operator

Nankai Electric Railway is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predate ...

. It has the station number "NK66".

Lines

Kongō Station is served by the Nankai Koya Line, and is 22.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at and 22.2 kilometers from .

Layout

The station consists of two ground-level

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s connected by an elevated station building.

Platforms

File:Kongo Station 2.jpg, West exit File:Kongo Station 4.jpg, Ticket gates File:Kongo Station 3.jpg, Platform

Adjacent stations

History

Kongō Station opened on April 19, 1937.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 32,893 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

* Kongō New Town * Aeon Kongo store * Osaka Prefectural Sayama High School

References

External links

Kongō Station
from Nankai Electric Railway website Railway stations in Japan opened in 1937 Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture Ōsakasayama {{Osaka-railstation-stub