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15-521: The Iida Line ( 飯田線 , Iida-sen ) is a Japanese railway line connecting Toyohashi Station in Toyohashi, Aichi with Tatsuno Station in Tatsuno, Nagano , operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). The line links eastern Aichi Prefecture and southern Nagano Prefecture through northwestern Shizuoka Prefecture. It goes through steep mountains as well as cities such as Iida and Ina . The line

30-455: A bay platform . The Tokaido Main Line uses a side platform and two island platforms . The elevated Shinkansen portion of Toyohashi Station has a side platform and an island platform. Toyohashi Station opened 1 September 1888. The privately owned Toyokawa Railway began operations to Toyohashi on 15 July 15 1897, but renamed its terminus Yoshida Station ( 吉田駅 ) in 1899 to differentiate itself from

45-613: Is also a terminus for the 99.8-kilometer (62.0 mi) Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line . Toyohashi Railroad has two small stations close to Toyohashi Station: Shin-Toyohashi Station for the Atsumi Line railway and Ekimae Station for the Azumada Main Line tramway, but these stations are not physically connected to Toyohashi Station. Local train services at Toyohashi Station are handled by five platforms serving eight tracks. The Iida Line and Meitetsu lines use three tracks terminating in

60-528: The Meitetsu portion by 17,479. Shin-Toyohashi Station Shin-Toyohashi Station is a terminal station of the Atsumi Line , and is located 18.0 kilometers from the opposing terminus of the line at Mikawa-Tahara Station . The station has a single dead-headed island platform . The station is staffed. Shin-Toyohashi Station was established by the privately-held Atsumi Railroad on October 1, 1927. Previously,

75-399: The city, while the section between Hon-Nagashino and Tenryūkyō is a mountain railway with fewer passengers. All trains stop at stations marked "●" and pass stations marked "-", "↓", or "↑". Arrows indicate the direction of rapid trains. Some trains stop at stops marked "▲". All trains stop at stations marked "●" and pass stations marked "-", "↓", or "↑". Arrows also indicate the directions

90-672: The control of JR Central. A shopping center and a hotel were added to the station building complex in 1997. Station numbering was introduced to the section of the Tōkaidō Line operated JR Central as well as the Iida Line in March 2018; Toyohashi Station was assigned station number CA42 for the Tōkaidō Line and CD00 for the Iida Line. In fiscal 2017, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 29,045 passengers daily (arriving passengers only) and

105-667: The electrification of the Toyohashi to Omi section the same year. The Toyohashi to Toyokawa section was double-tracked the following year. The Sanshin Railway opened the Tenryukyo to Kadoshima section as an electrified (1,500 V DC) line in 1932, the Mikawa-Kawai to Toei section (and all subsequent stages) as an electrified line in 1933, and connected the two sections (completing the line) in 1936. All four companies were nationalised in 1943. In 1955,

120-404: The entire length of the 195.7 km (121.6 mi) line by local trains takes six hours. The limited express Inaji ( 伊那路 ) runs between Toyohashi and Iida twice a day. The rapid Misuzu ( みすず ) runs between Iida and Okaya . Local service is generally divided into three parts by Hon-Nagashino and Tenryūkyō stations. The section near Toyohashi functions as commuter rail for

135-529: The government railway system. The station building was rebuilt in 1916 and again in 1927. The Aichi Electric Railway's Toyohashi Line began operations to the Yoshida Station side of the facility on 1 June 1927. This line became part of Meitetsu on 1 August 1935, and is now the Nagoya Main Line. The Toyokawa Railway was nationalized on 1 August 1943, becoming the Iida Line, and the usage of ‘Yoshida Station’

150-453: The overhead line voltage of the Tatsuno to Tenryukyo section was increased to 1,500 V DC. CTC signalling was commissioned on the line between 1983 and 1984, and freight services ceased in 1996. Toyohashi Station Toyohashi Station ( 豊橋駅 , Toyohashi-eki ) is an interchange railway station in Toyohashi, Aichi , Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai) and

165-454: The private railway operator Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu). Toyohashi Station is served by the high-speed Tokaido Shinkansen , and the conventional Tokaido Main Line operated by JR Central. It is 293.6 kilometers (182.4 mi) from Tokyo Station . It is also the southern terminus of the Iida Line and is 129.3 kilometers (80.3 mi) form the northern terminus at Iida Station . The station

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180-569: The rapid trains run. The Toyokawa Railway opened the section from Toyohashi to Toyokawa in 1897, extending the line to Omi in 1900. At the northern end, the Ina Electric Railway opened the Tatsuno to Ina-Matsushima section (electrified at 1,200 V DC) in 1909, extending the line to Tenryukyo in sections between 1911 and 1927. The Horaitera Railway opened the Omi to Mikawa-Kawai section in 1923, and electrified it at 1,500 V DC in 1925 in conjunction with

195-687: The terminal of the Atsumi Railroad was 200 meters further north at Hanada Station ( 花田駅 , Hanada Station ) . On September 1, 1940, the Atsumi Railway became part of the Nagoya Railway system, and was spun out again as the Toyohashi Railway on October 1, 1954. In 2008, the station was expanded, with its side platform changed to an island platform, and the station building replaced by an elevated three-story station building. In fiscal 2017,

210-578: Was dropped. The station was destroyed in the Toyohashi Air Raid of 20 June 1945, during World War II . After the war, the JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and a new station was completed in 1950. The Tokaido Shinkansen opened on 1 October 1964. A new station building was completed in 1970. With the privatization and dissolution of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under

225-509: Was originally of four different private railway lines, the first of which opened in 1897. The line has an unusually high number of so-called Hikyō stations , or hikyo-eki , which have since lost their nearby communities due to depopulation. There are 94 such stations along the route. The line has been described as the "holy land for those who love touring hikyo-eki". The phrase was coined in 1999 by Takanobu Ushiyama and friends, for railroad stations that are isolated and little used. Traveling

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