Akagi Station is a terminal station of the Tōbu Kiryū Line, and is located 20.3 kilometers from the opposing terminal of the line at Ōta. It is also a station for the Jōmō Line and is 19.6 kilometers from the starting point of that line at Chūō-Maebashi.
Station layout
Akagi Station has one island platform for the Jōmō Line and one bay platform serving two tracks for the Tōbu Kiryū Line, with both sets of platforms elevated with the station building underneath. Both companies share the same set of ticket barriers.
The station opened on 10 November 1928 as Shin-Ōmama Station (新大間々駅) on the Jōmō Line. The Tōbu Railway station opened on 18 March 1932. The station was renamed Akagi Station on 1 November 1958.[1]
From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tōbu lines, with Akagi Station becoming "TI-57".[2]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the Tōbu station was used by an average of 1201 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
^Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 199. ISBN4-87366-874-3.
^「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 8 August 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
^駅情報(乗降人員) [Station information (passengers)] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020. (in Japanese)
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