Station

Tomoe

友江

Tomoe
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Tomoe Station opened on 31 July 1913 with the inauguration of the Yōrō Railway between Yōrō and Ikeno, in present-day Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, and now lies 37.4 km from the opposite terminus at Kuwana. Its owner changed repeatedly through Japan's interwar private-railway consolidations: Ibigawa Electric (1922), Yōrō Electric Railway (1928), Ise Electric Railway (1929), Yōrō Electric (1936), Sangū Express (1940), Kansai Express (1941), and Kinki Nippon Railway in 1944. On 1 October 2007 operations were spun off from Kintetsu to the present-day Yōrō Railway. The station retains a side platform and an island platform; one face of the island is out of service, the overhead wire removed. Tomoe has no station building and is unstaffed.

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Tomoe has passed through eight different operators since opening in 1913 — Ibigawa Electric, Yōrō Electric Railway, Ise Electric, Yōrō Electric, Sangū Express, Kansai Express, Kinki Nippon Railway, and the present-day Yōrō Railway — without ever changing its name.

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