en Aioi Station (Gunma)

Location
	Aioi Station Location within Gunma Prefecture Aioi Station Aioi Station (Japan)

TI56 WK03
Aioi Station

相老駅
TI56 WK03; Aioi Station; 相老駅
	Aioi Station building, February 2015
General information
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°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
Services
Location
Location
	Aioi Station Location within Gunma Prefecture Aioi Station Aioi Station (Japan)

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

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

History

Aioi Station opened on the Ashio Line on 15 April 1911,^[1] 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".^[2]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 698 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[3]

Surrounding area

Kiryū Aioi Post Office
National Route 122

References

^ "沿革・歴史" [Company History]. watetsu.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
^ 「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 Archived 2019-10-15 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
Watarase Keikoku Railway station information (in Japanese)

[1] "沿革・歴史" [Company History]. watetsu.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

[tobu20120209-2] 「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-3] 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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Aioi Station (Gunma)