Tsu Station

Tsu Station (津駅,Tsu-eki) is a junction passengerrailway station located in the city ofTsu,Mie Prefecture, operated byCentral Japan Railway Company (JR Central), the private railway operatorKintetsu and thethird sector Ise Railway. The name of the station is considered the shortest in Japan because it is the only station name that is written with onekana, even though other stations have shorter names whenwritten in Latin letters, such asOe Station.

Tsu Station

津駅

Tsu Station east exit

General information

Location

1191-1 Hadokoro-cho, Tsu-shi, Mie-ken 514-0009
Japan

Coordinates

34°44′2.35″N136°30′36.84″E / 34.7339861°N 136.5102333°E /34.7339861; 136.5102333

Operated by

Line(s)

Distance

15.5 km fromKameyama
22.3 km fromYokkaichi
12.3 km fromIse-Nakagawa

Platforms

2 island + 1 side + 1 bay platform

Other information

Status

Staffed

Station code

E39

Website

Official website

History

Opened

December 20, 1930; 94 years ago (1930-12-20)

Passengers

FY2019

3,609 (JR)
15,689 (Kintetsu)
1,691(Ise Railway) daily

Location
Tsu Station Location within Mie Prefecture Show map of Mie Prefecture Tsu Station Tsu Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Station name inhiragana (つ),kanji (津) andrōmaji (*Tsu*)

Lines

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Tsu Station is served by the JRKisei Main Line, and is located 15.5 km (9.6 mi) from the starting point of the line atKameyama Station. It is 12.3 km (7.6 mi) from the terminus of theNagoya Line atIse-Nakagawa Station. It is also the terminus of theIse Line and is 22.3 km (13.9 mi) from the opposing terminus atYokkaichi Station.

Station layout

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The station consists of four ground-levelplatforms serving six tracks, connected by pedestrian footbridges. The JR uses oneisland platform and oneside platform and the Kintetsu portion has one island platform. The Ise Railway uses a singlebay platform.

Platforms

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1	■ Ise Railway Ise Line	Local trains forYokkaichi, viaSuzuka
2	■ JR Central Kisei Line	Local trains, RapidMie and Limited ExpressNanki forMatsusaka,Shingū,Iseshi,Toba andKii-Katsuura
3	■ JR Central Kisei Line	Local trains forKameyama
3	■ through to the Ise Railway Ise Line	RapidMie and Limited ExpressNanki for Yokkaichi,Kuwana andNagoya
4	■ JR Central Kisei Line	Local trains for Kameyama (siding) Local trains for Matsusaka,Taki, Shingū, Iseshi and Toba (siding)
5	■ Kintetsu Nagoya Line	Local, Express and Limited Express services forIse-Nakagawa,Ōsaka,Kobe,Toba andKashikojima
6	■ Kintetsu Nagoya Line	Local, Express and Limited Express services forYokkaichi,Kuwana andNagoya

Adjacent stations

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«	Service
JR Central Kisei Main Line
Ishinden	Local	Akogi
Ise Railway Ise Line	RapidMie	Matsusaka
Ise Railway Ise Line	Limited ExpressNanki	Matsusaka
Kintetsu Nagoya Line
Edobashi	Local	Tsu-shimmachi
Edobashi	Express	Tsu-shimmachi
Shiroko	Limited Express	(Hisai) Ise-Nakagawa Nabari (Osaka Line)
Kintetsu Nagoya	Limited Express (no stops between Nagoya and Tsu)	Iseshi (Yamada Line) (Yamato-Yagi) (Osaka Line) Tsuruhashi (Osaka Line)
Limited ExpressShimakaze: Does not stop at this station
Ise Railway Ise Line (12)
Higashi-Ishinden (11)	Local	Terminus
Suzuka Circuit Inō (6) (during racing events at Suzuka Circuit) Suzuka (4)	RapidMie (usually)	Matsusaka (Kisei Line)
Nakaseko (8)	RapidMie 4 and 6 for Nagoya	Matsusaka (Kisei Line)
Suzuka Circuit Inō (6) (during Formula 1 Japanese GP) Suzuka (4)	Limited ExpressNanki	Matsusaka (Kisei Line)

History

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Tsu Station opened on November 4, 1891, as a station on the Tsuspur line of the privately owned Kansai Railway. The line was nationalized on October 1, 1907, becoming theSangū Line of theJapanese Government Railways on October 12, 1909. On April 3, 1932, theSangū 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 theJapanese 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 theprivatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, with the Ise Line spun off to the private sector a few days earlier.

Passenger statistics

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In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 3,609 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). During the same period, the Kintetsu portion was used by 15,689 passengers and the Ise Railway portion by 1,691 passengers daily.^[1]