Gondō Station

Gondō Station 権堂駅
Gondō Station in November 2013
General information
Location	2199-10 Tsuruga-Gondō-chō, Nagano-shi, Nagano-ken 381-0000 Japan
Coordinates	36°39′11.1″N 138°11′30.7″E
Operated by	Nagano Electric Railway
Line(s)	■ Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line
Distance	1.0 km from Nagano
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	N3
Website	Official website
History
Opened	28 June 1926
Rebuilt	1981
Passengers
FY2016	1305 daily
Location Gondō Station Location within Japan

Gondō Station (権堂駅, Gondō-eki) is an underground railway station in the city of Nagano, Japan, operated by the private railway operating company Nagano Electric Railway.

Lines

Gondō Station is a station on the Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line and is 1.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Nagano Station and 32.2 km from the terminus at Yudanaka Station in Yamanouchi, Nagano.

Station layout

The station is an underground station consisting of two opposed side platforms serving two tracks. The station is staffed.

Platforms

1	■ Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line	for Suzaka, Shinshū-Nakano and Yudanaka
2	■ Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line	for Nagano

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Nagano Electric Railway
Nagano		Express-A		Suzaka
Shiyakushomae		Express-B		Hongō
Shiyakushomae		Local		Zenkōjishita

History

The station opened on 28 June 1926. It was reopened as an underground station on 1 March 1981.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1305 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[1]

Surrounding area

East Entrance of Gondo Arcade at Gondo Station

• central Nagano city
• Akiba Shrine (秋葉神社, Akiba Jinja)
• Gondo Arcade (権堂アーケード, Gondou a-ke-do)
• Head office of Nagano Electric Railway
• Ito-Yokado Nagano (株式会社イトーヨーカ堂, Kabushiki-gaisha Itō Yōkadō)
• Nagano Shochiku Aioiza Theatre (長野松竹相生座・長野ロキシー, Nagano Shouchiku Aioiza Naganoshi), a cinema which first opened as a kabuki theatre in 1892^[2]
• Gocho Campus of the University of Nagano

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. 84 地方鉄道(JRを除く)駅別乗降旅客人員 [Nagano Prefectural Statistics (Fiscal 2016) Section 84] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Nagano Prefecture. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-25.
2. "映画館の歴史". 長野松竹相生座・長野ロキシー (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-04-09.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)