Ikebe Station
Ikebe Station 池部駅 | |||||||||||||
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| Kintetsu Railway commuter rail station | |||||||||||||
 Ikebe Station Building | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 1-3, Ikebe 1-chōme, Kawai-cho, Kitakatsuragi-gun, Nara-ken 636-0053 Japan | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°34′43″N 135°44′15″E / 34.578647°N 135.737553°E | ||||||||||||
| Owned by |  Kintetsu Railway | ||||||||||||
| Operated by | Kintetsu Railway | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | I Tawaramoto Line | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 7.1 km (4.4 miles) | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Train operators | Kintetsu Railway | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||||
| Parking | None | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities |  available | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | I40 | ||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 26 April 1918 | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | 697 daily | ||||||||||||
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Ikebe Station (池部駅, Ikebe-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Kawai, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company, Kintetsu Railway.[1]
Line
[edit]Ikebe Station is served by the Tawaramoto Line and is 4.0 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Shin-Ōji. The station is serviced by Nara Kotsu Bus Lines' Route 9 bus at Ōwada Sta. Gate from Kataokadai 1-chome once a day, but the services is alighting only. It is also serviced by free shuttle wagon Sunamaru-go's North Route and West Route for Sōgō-fukushi-kaikan 10 shuttles a day.
Layout
[edit]The station is an above-ground station with a single platform and one track, and both Shin-Oji and Nishi-Tawaramoto bound trains depart and arrive from the same platform. The effective length of the platform is three cars..The station is unattended.[2]
Platforms
[edit]| Platform level | Track | I Tawaramoto Line ■ Local for Nishi-Tawaramoto → ← I Tawaramoto Line—■ Local for Shin-Ōji |
Side platform, doors will open on the right for Nishi-Tawaramoto or on the left for Shin-Ōji  
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| Street level | Exit / entrance | |
History
[edit]The station opened on 26 April 1918 as a station on the Yamato Railway. It became a station on the Shigiikoma Electric Railway in 1961 due to a company merger, and became a station on Kintetsu Railway by a further merger on 1 October 1964.
Passenger statistics
[edit]In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 697 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
Surrounding area
[edit]- Kawai Town Hall
- Kawai Town Kawai Daiichi Elementary School
- Kawai Town Kawai Daiichi Junior High School
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
- ^ "池部駅" [Ikebe Station]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ Nara Prefecture Statistical Yearbook
External links
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Media related to Ikebe Station at Wikimedia Commons