Ujiyamada Station
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Kintetsu Yamada Line
The is a railway line of the Japanese private railway company Kintetsu, connecting Ise-Nakagawa Station and Ujiyamada Station in Japan. The line runs parallel to parts of the JR Central Kisei Main Line and Sangū Line.The line connects with the Toba Line at Ujiyamada Station...
and Toba Line
Kintetsu Toba Line
The is a railway line of the Japanese private railway company Kintetsu, connecting Ujiyamada Station and Toba Station in Japan. The line runs parallel to the JR Central Sangū Line....
located in Ise
Ise, Mie
, formerly called Ujiyamada , is a city located in eastern Mie Prefecture, on the island of Honshū, Japan.Ise is home to Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shintō Shrine in Japan, and is thus a very popular destination for tourists. The city has a long-standing nickname—Shinto —that roughly means...
, Mie Prefecture
Mie Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan which is part of the Kansai regions on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Tsu.- History :Until the Meiji Restoration, Mie prefecture was known as Ise Province and Iga Province....
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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It was established as the closest station to Ise Grand Shrine and thus played an important role for tourists and pilgrims, especially in the past when trains were the most pervasive form of long-distance travel.
Station structure
Bay platform
Bay platform is a railway-related term commonly used in the UK and Australia to describe a dead-end platform at a railway station that has through lines...
. They are on the third floor of the building.
The only entrance to the building is on the west of the first floor and, in spite of its being an elevated station, one cannot leave a platform directly and exit the east of the station.
The platform 1･2 wire, Toba, comes to a dead end, and a lapel train at this station is housed there. Trains only travel to the Toba and Kashikojima area from the platform 3･4 wire. There is a stand in the platform 4.
The ground and there is a place where it is connected with the slope on 1 annealing wire side. The limited express bus of Toba and Kashikojima drove before the Toba line began operating, and was connected with the limited express train at this station. After the Toba Line began operating, a periodic sight-seeing bus also drove to the Toba and Kashikjima area, but the bus was discontinued.
A royal suite is established in the second floor. Originally a penthouse on the building's east end, it was used as a fire watch tower, and became the firefighting headquarters of postwar Ise.
| 1 | Yamada Line | returning for Ise-Nakagawa at this station |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Yamada Line | returning for Ise-Nakagawa, Tsu, Nagoya and Osaka at this station |
| 3 | Toba Line | for , , and |
| 4 | Yamada Line | for , , , , and |
Adjacent stations
Ticketing
- Limited express tickets and commuter passes are available
- Automatic ticket checking is installed with additional compatibility with PiTaPa and ICOCA.
Surrounding area
- Ise Grand Shrine
- Chokokan Ise Grand Shrine History Museum
- Ise City Hall
- Ise sight-seeing information center
- Kōgakkan UniversityKogakkan Universityis a private university at Ise, Mie, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1882, and it was chartered as a university in 1940.- External links :*...
- Kōgakkan High School
- Ise High School
- Ise Technical High School