Aioi Station (Gunma)

Aioi Station

相老駅
; Aioi Station; 相老駅
	Aioi Station building, February 2015
Location	2-756 Aioicho, Kiryū-shi, Gunma-ken 376-0011; Japan
Coordinates	36°24′36″N 139°18′16″E / 36.4100°N 139.3044°ECoordinates: 36°24′36″N 139°18′16″E / 36.4100°N 139.3044°E
Operated by	Tōbu Railway; Watarase Keikoku Railway;
Line(s)	Tōbu Kiryū Line ■ Watarase Keikoku Line
Distance	16.9 km from Ōta
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	TI-56, WK04
Website	Official website
History
Opened	15 April 1911
Passengers
FY2019	698
Location
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Aioi Station (相老駅, Aioi-eki) is a junction passenger railway station in the city of Kiryū, Gunma, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway and the third sector Watarase Keikoku Railway.

Lines[]

Aioi Station is a station on the Tōbu Kiryū Line, and is located 16.9 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Ōta. It is also 3.1 kilometers grin the terminal of the Watarase Keikoku Railway Watarase Keikoku Line at Kiryū.

Station layout[]

Overview of the station, with the Tobu Kiryu Line platforms on the left and the Watarase Keikoku Railway platforms on the right, February 2015

Aioi Station has two opposed side platforms for the Watarase Keikoku Railway and one island platform for the Tōbu Railway, with both sets of platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. Both companies share the same set of ticket barriers.

Platforms[]

1	■ Watarase Keikoku Line	for Kiryū
2	■ Watarase Keikoku Line	for Ōmama and Ashio
3	■ Tōbu Kiryū Line	for Ōta
4	■ Tōbu Kiryū Line	for Akagi

Adjacent stations[]

«	Service	»
Watarase Keikoku Line
Terminus	Watarase Keikoku-gō	Ōmama
Shimo-Shinden	Local	Undōkōen
Tōbu Kiryū Line
Shin-Kiryū	Ryōmō		Akagi
Shin-Kiryū	Local		Akagi

History[]

Aioi Station opened on the Ashio Line on 15 April 1911, with the name written using the kanji characters (相生). The kanji characters were changed to the present name on 1 July 1913.^{[citation needed]}

From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tōbu lines, with Aioi Station becoming "TI-56".^[1]

Passenger statistics[]

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 698 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[2]

Surrounding area[]

Kiryū Aioi Post Office
National Route 122

References[]

^ 「東武スカイツリーライン」誕生！あわせて駅ナンバリングを導入し、よりわかりやすくご案内します [Tobu Sky Tree Line created! Station numbering to be introduced at same time] (PDF). Tobu News (in Japanese). Tobu Railway. 9 February 2012. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
^ 市内鉄道の年間乗降客数 [Annual number of passengers on the city rail] (in Japanese). Japan: Kiryū City. 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020. (in Japanese)

External links[]

Tobu Railway station information (in Japanese)
Watarase Keikoku Railway station information (in Japanese)

[tobu20120209-1] 「東武スカイツリーライン」誕生！あわせて駅ナンバリングを導入し、よりわかりやすくご案内します [Tobu Sky Tree Line created! Station numbering to be introduced at same time] (PDF). Tobu News (in Japanese). Tobu Railway. 9 February 2012. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 22 October 2013.

[Kiryu2019stats-2] 市内鉄道の年間乗降客数 [Annual number of passengers on the city rail] (in Japanese). Japan: Kiryū City. 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020. (in Japanese)

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