Echigawa Station
Encyclopedia
is a train station
in Aishō
(Echigawa
), Shiga, Japan
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Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
in Aishō
Aisho, Shiga
is a town located in Echi District in eastern Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The town was founded on February 13, 2006 when the towns of Echigawa and Hatashō merged. The name "Aishō" combines the first character in and the second character in ....
(Echigawa
Echigawa, Shiga
was a town located in Echi District, Shiga, Japan. It developed as Echigawa-juku in Edo period.On February 13, 2006 Echigawa was merged with the town of Hatashō, also from Echi District, to form the new town of Aishō....
), Shiga, Japan
Japan
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Layout
This station has 2 side platforms with a track each.Surroundings
- Aishō Town Hall
- Echi Highschool
- NakasendōNakasendoThe , also called the , was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo to Kyoto in Japan. There were 69 stations between Edo and Kyoto, crossing through Musashi, Kōzuke, Shinano, Mino and Ōmi provinces...
Echigawa-jukuEchigawa-jukuwas the sixty-fifth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in Aishō, Echi District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.-History:Echigawa-juku has a long history. Kitabatake Akiie recorded his stay here in 1336 in the Taiheiki. It was originally a post town along the Tōsandō, before... - Tōkaidō Shinkansen