Station

Aoyamachou

青山町

Aoyamachou
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Train service

Weekday departures: 13/day · Sat & holiday departures: 10/day

First / last train (weekday): 7:57 / 22:01

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (2)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Aoyamachō Station opened on 19 November 1930 as Ao Station on the Sangu Express Electric Railway, sited in present-day Iga, Mie Prefecture. The line passed to Kansai Express Railway through a 1941 merger with Osaka Electric Railway, and on 1 June 1944 to Kintetsu Railway following a further consolidation with Nankai. Double tracking from Iga-Kambe was completed between 1960 and 1961, and the station was renamed Aoyamachō on 1 March 1970. A 1991 rebuild gave the station two island platforms and four tracks accommodating ten-car formations, and the adjoining Aoyama-chō depot opened in 1998. It now serves as the principal Osaka-bound turnback point on the eastern Osaka Line.

Notes

Even after Naga County's Aoyama Town was merged into the city of Iga in 2004 — abolishing the place name — the station retained "Aoyamachō" in its title.

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