Station

Tsuzumigataki

鼓滝

Tsuzumigataki
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Tsuzumigataki Station opened on 13 April 1913 as Tsuzumigataki Station on what is now Nose Electric Railway's Myōken Line, originally located alongside a section of the old Route 173 that the line shared as a tramway. The name was simplified in writing in 1965, and on 25 May 1969 the station was relocated to its present site, with the line double-tracked from 5 October 1969 and reclassified under the Local Railway Law. The kanji rendering changed again in March 2006 and barrier-free works completed in February 2011 added separate ticket gates on each platform. The station has two opposed platforms serving up to four-car trains, and is unstaffed.

Notes

The station is named after the 30-metre waterfall that once stood nearby and whose sound was likened to a drum (tsuzumi). The station's kanji rendering itself has been rewritten three times to keep up with changing standards.

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