Jidōshagakkō Mae Station

Jidōshagakkō Mae Station (自動車学校前駅, Jidōshagakkō Mae-eki) is a railway station in Chūō-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company, Enshū Railway.

Jidōshagakkō Mae Station 自動車学校前駅
Jidōshagakkō Mae Station
General information
Location	Aritama-minami-cho 1739, Chūō-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken 431-3122 Japan
Coordinates	34°44′51.54″N 137°45′6.47″E
Line(s)	■ Enshū Railway Line
Distance	5.3 km from Shin-Hamamatsu
Platforms	2 side platforms
Other information
Status	Unstaffed
Station code	08
History
Opened	December 6, 1909
Previous names	Ichiba (to 1926), Enshū-Ichiba (to 1966)
Passengers
FY2017	971 (daily)
Location Jidōshagakkō Mae Station Location within Shizuoka Prefecture Show map of Shizuoka Prefecture Jidōshagakkō Mae Station Jidōshagakkō Mae Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Platform

Lines

Jidōshagakkō Mae Station is a station on the Enshū Railway Line and is 5.3 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Shin-Hamamatsu Station.

Station layout

The station is an unattended station with a single ground-level island platform. The station building is a four-story building, with the upper floors as private condominiums. The station building has automated ticket machines, and automated turnstiles which accept the NicePass smart card, as well as ET Card, a magnetic card ticketing system.

Platforms

1	■ Enshū Railway Line	for Hamakita and Nishi-Kajima
2	■ Enshū Railway Line	for Shin-Hamamatsu

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Enshū Railway
Enshū Railway Line
Kamijima		-	Saginomiya

Station History

Jidōshagakkō Mae Station was established on December 6, 1909 as Ichiba Station (市場駅, Ichiba-eki). It was renamed to Enshū-Ichiba Station (遠州市場駅, Enshū-Ichiba-eki) in 1926. The station gained its present name with the opening of a large driver's training school nearby in 1966. The station has been unmanned since September 1974.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 971 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[1]

Surrounding area

• Entetsu Driving School

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. 静岡県統計年鑑2017(平成29年)) (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Shizuoka Prefecture. 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2019.

External links

Media related to Jidōsha-Gakkō-Mae Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Enshū Railway official website