Matsusaka Station

Matsusaka Station is served by the JR Kisei Main Line and is 34.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kameyama Station. It is also a terminus for the 43.5 kilometer JR Meishō Line to Ise-Okitsu Station. The station is also served by the Kintetsu Yamada Line and 8.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of that line at Ise-Nakagawa Station.

Matsusaka Station has a total of five platforms serving seven tracks. Of these, the JR portion of the station uses one side platform and two island platforms and the Kintetsu portion has one side platform and one island platform. The platforms are connected footbridges.

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Matsusaka Station opened on December 31, 1894 as a station on Sangu Railway Line. The line was nationalized on October 1, 1907, becoming the Sangu Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) on October 12, 1909. On August 17, 1912, the Mie Electric Railway began operations at Matsusaka Station. The Meishō Line began operations from August 25, 1929. On March 27, 1930, Sangu Kyuko Electric Railway Co. connected to Matsusaka Station. A new station building was completed on December 3, 1937. Sangu Kyuko was acquired by Osaka Electric Railway Co. in March 1941, and renamed Kansai Kyuko Railway Co., subsequently merging with the Nankai Railway to form Kintetsu in 1944. The station was transferred to the control of the Japan National Railways (JNR) Kisei Main Line on July 15, 1959. A new station building was completed in November 1962. Mie Electric Railway went out of business in 1964. All freight operations were discontinued in 1984. The station was absorbed into the JR Central network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987.

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 1,702 passengers daily (boarding passengers only) and the Kintetsu portion of the station was used by an average of 7,533 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).{{cite web|url=https://www.pref.mie.lg.jp/common/07/ci500002761.htm|script-title=ja:三重県統計書|trans-title=Mie Prefectural Statistics|year= 2020|publisher= Mie Prefecture|location= Japan|language= Japanese|archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= 11 August 2020}}

• Matsusaka City Hall
• Matsusaka Park (former site of Matsusaka Castle)
• Matsusaka Technical High School

• List of railway stations in Japan

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• [http://railway.jr-central.co.jp/station-guide/tokai/matsusaka/index.html JR Central: Matsusaka Station]{{in lang|ja}}
• [http://www.kintetsu.co.jp/station/station_info/station18008.html Kintetsu: Matsusaka Station]{{in lang|ja}}

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