Tsu Station

Tsu Station 津駅
File:Tsu-Station.jpg Tsu Station east exit
Location	1191-1 Hadokoro-cho, Tsu, Mie （三重県津市羽所町1191-1（JR東海）） Japan
Operated by	JR Central Kintetsu Ise Railway
Line(s)	Kisei Main Line Kintetsu Nagoya Line Ise Railway Ise Line
Other information
Station code	12 (Ise Railway)
History
Opened	1891
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010)	3354 (JR) 14,845 (Kintetsu) 1705 (Ise Railway) daily

File:TsuStekimeihyo.jpg

Station name in hiragana (つ), kanji (津) and rōmaji (Tsu)

Tsu Station (津駅, Tsu-eki) is a joint use railway station in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), Kintetsu and the Ise Railway. The station is 34.6 rail kilometres from the terminus of the line at Kameyama Station and 8.4 rail kilometres from the terminus of the Kintetestu Yamada Line at Ise-Nakagawa Station. The name of the station is considered the shortest in Japan because it is the only station name that is written with one kana, even though other stations have shorter names when written in Latin letters, such as Oe Station.

History

Tsu Station opened on November 4, 1891, as a station on the Tsu spur line of the privately owned Kansai Railway. The line was nationalized on October 1, 1907, becoming the Sangu Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) on October 12, 1909. On April 3, 1932, the Sangu Express Electric Railway began operations at Tsu Station. This line underwent various changes in ownership, eventually becoming the Kintetsu Nagoya Line in 1944. The station was transferred to the control of the Japan National Railways (JNR) Kisei Main Line on July 15, 1959. The JNR Ise Line began operations on September 1, 1973. The station was absorbed into the JR Central network upon the privatization of the (JNR) on April 1, 1987, with the Ise Line spun off to the private sector a few days earlier.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)
  • Kisei Main Line
• Kintetsu
  • Nagoya Line
• Ise Railway
  • Ise Line

Station layout

Tsu Station has a total of four ground-level platforms serving six tracks, connected by overpasses. Of these, the JR portion of the station uses one island platform and one side platforms and the Kintetsu portion has one island platform. The Ise Railway uses a single-platform Bay platform.

Platforms

1	■ Ise Railway Ise Line	local trains for Yokkaichi
2	■ JR Central Kisei Line	local trains, rapid " Mie" and limited express "Nanki" for Matsusaka, Shingu and Iseshi
3	■ JR Central Kisei Line	local trains for Kameyama
	■ through to the Ise Railway Ise Line	rapid " Mie" and limited express "Nanki" for Yokkaichi and Nagoya
4	■ JR Central Kisei Line	local trains for Kameyama (siding) local trains for Matsusaka, Shingu and Iseshi (siding)
5	■ Kintetsu Nagoya Line	for Ise-Nakagawa, Osaka, Kobe, Toba and Kashikojima
6	■ Kintetsu Nagoya Line	for Yokkaichi, Kuwana and Nagoya

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
JR Central Kisei Main Line
Ishinden		Local		Akogi
Ise Railway		Rapid "Mie"		Matsusaka
Ise Railway		Limited express "Nanki"		Matsusaka
Kintetsu Nagoya Line
Edobashi		Local		Tsu-shimmachi
Edobashi		Express		Tsu-shimmachi
Shiroko		Limited express		(Hisai) Ise-Nakagawa Nabari (Osaka Line)
Kintetsu Nagoya		Limited express (no stops between Nagoya and Tsu)		Iseshi (Yamada Line) (Yamato-Yagi (Osaka Line)) Tsuruhashi (Osaka Line)
Limited express "Shimakaze": no stop
Ise Railway Ise Line (12)
Higashi-Ishinden (11)		Local		Terminus
Suzuka Circuit Ino (6) (during racing events at Suzuka Circuit) Suzuka (4)		Rapid "Mie" (usually)		Matsusaka (Kisei Line)
Nakaseko (8)		Rapid "Mie" 4, 6 for Nagoya		Matsusaka (Kisei Line)
Suzuka Circuit Ino (6) (during Formula 1 Japanese GP) Suzuka (4)		Limited express "Nanki"		Matsusaka (Kisei Line)

External links

• (Japanese) Tsu Station Official home page - JR Central
• (Japanese) Official home page – Kintetsu
• (Japanese) Official home page - Ise Railway