Takadabashi Station
railway station in Gifu, Gifu prefecture, Japan
Takadabashi Station (高田橋駅, Takadabashi-eki) is a railway station located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Meitetsu.
Lines
Takadabashi Station is a station on the Kakamigahara Line, and is located 5.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Meitetsu-Gifu.
Station layout
Takadabashi Station has two ground-level opposed side platforms. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
Takadabashi Station opened on January 21, 1926.
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This entry incorporates text from “Takadabashi 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.