Nishi-Kozakai Station

Nishi-Kozakai Station 西小坂井駅
File:Nishi-Kozakai Station.jpg Nishi-Kozakai Station Building
Location	Ina-chō, Maeyama 20, Toyokawa, Aichi （愛知県豊川市伊奈町前山20） Japan
Operated by	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1448
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	1,047 daily

Nishi-Kozakai Station (西小坂井駅, Nishi-Kozakai-eki) is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line of Central Japan Railway Company in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The station is 298.4 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Station history

Nishi-Kozakai Station began operations on June 10, 1945 as Nishi-Ina Signal (西伊奈信号場, Nishi-Ina-shingō-shō) on the Tōkaidō Main Line. 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 privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the Central Japan Railway Company. Automated turnstiles using the TOICA IC Card system came into operation from November 25, 2006.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Tōkaidō Main Line

Layout

Nishi-Kozakai Station has a two island platforms connected to the station building by an overpass; however, track 1 is not in use.

Station layout

2	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Toyohashi・Hamamatsu
3	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Okazaki・Nagoya
4	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	For Okazaki・Nagoya

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Central Japan Railway Company
Tōkaidō Main Line
Special Rapid: no stop
New Rapid: no stop
Rapid: no stop
Sectional Rapid: no stop
Toyohashi		Local		Aichi-Mito

References

• Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.(Japanese)