Kozakai Station

Kozakai Station 小坂井駅
File:Kozakai Station-Building.jpg Kozakai Station building
Location	Kozakai-cho Kurayashiki 71, Toyokawa, Aichi （愛知県豊川市小坂井町倉屋敷71） Japan
Operated by	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Iida Line
History
Opened	1898
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	438 daily

Kozakai Station (小坂井駅, Kozakai-eki) is a railway station on the Iida Line in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is located 4.4 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Iida Line at Toyohashi Station.

Station History

Kozakai Station was established on March 13, 1898 as a station on the now-defunct Toyokawa Railway (豊川鉄道, Toyokawa Tetsudō) connecting Toyohashi with Toyokawa. On April 1, 1926, the Aichi Electric Railroad (愛知電気鉄道, Aichi Denki Tetsudo) (later part of Meitetsu also began operations to this station. On August 1, 1943, the Toyokawa Railway was nationalized along with some other local lines to form the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Iida Line. Meitetsu ceased operations to Kozakai in 1954. Scheduled freight operations were discontinued in 1971. Along with its division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company. A new station building was completed in February 2002.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Iida Line

Layout

Kozakai Station has two opposed side platforms connected by an overpass crossing.

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Iida Line
Limited Express "Inaji" (特急「伊那路」): no stop
Shimoji		Local (普通)		Ushikubo

External links

• (Japanese) Iida Line station information