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Gakuen-dōri Station

railway station in Miki, Kita district, Kagawa prefecture, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ11448185 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gakuen-dōri Station (学園通り駅, Gakuen-dōri-eki; lit. School Road Station) is a passenger railway station located in the town of in Miki, Kagawa, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad (Kotoden) and is designated station "N10".

Lines

Gakuen-dōri Station is a station on the Kotoden Nagao Line and is located 11.5 km from the opposing terminus of the line at Kawaramachi and 13.2 kilometers from Takamatsu-Chikkō Station.

Layout

The station consists of a single side platform serving one bi-directional track. The station is unattended. The station entrance has slopes from both sides of the station waiting area to the east and west ends of the station.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gakuen-dōri Station” as railway station in Miki, Kita district, Kagawa prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gakuen-dōri, Station and railway.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 109-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-09-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gakuen-dōri, Station and railway providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gakuen-dōri Station”, the useful work is to connect “railway station in Miki, Kita district, Kagawa prefecture, Japan” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11448185. Authority coordinates are 34.271, 134.137. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Gakuen-dōri Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gakuen-dōri Station primary sources, Gakuen-dōri Station archive and Gakuen-dōri research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Gakuen-dōri Station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Gakuen-dōri Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.