Station

Kitanomasuzuka

北野桝塚

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Kitanomasuzuka
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Kitano-Masuzuka Station opened on 1 October 1970 as a freight station on the Japanese National Railways Okata Line, primarily serving Toyota Motors and affiliated factories nearby. Scheduled passenger service began on 26 April 1976 with the station unstaffed. Freight handling ended on 1 January 1985 after the final automotive consist between here and Sendai-kō and Shime was discontinued. JR Central took over on 1 April 1987, and the station was transferred to the third-sector Aichi Loop Railway Company on 31 January 1988. An additional track was laid and the layout expanded to two island platforms on 23 December 2001 in preparation for Expo 2005. The station became staffed on 1 April 2008 and gained TOICA acceptance on 2 March 2019.

Notes

At its 1970s peak the station functioned as a major JNR automobile-transport hub, dispatching ten round-trip dedicated freight trains a day and handling roughly 140 wagons and 1,300 finished cars daily under the name "Kamigō Wagon Centre".

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