Station code 12 (Ise Railway) Opened 1891 | Address Japan | |
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Operated by JR CentralKintetsuIse Railway Similar | ||
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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.
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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.
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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.