Shin-Tanabe Station

Shin-Tanabe Station 新田辺駅
File:KT-Shin-TanabeStation-WestGate.jpg Shin-Tanabe Station, May 2008
Location	Kyōtanabe, Kyoto Japan
Coordinates
Operated by	Kintetsu Corporation
Line(s)	Kintetsu Kyoto Line
History
Opened	1928

Shin-Tanabe Station (新田辺駅, Shin-Tanabe Eki) is a railway station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line in the city of Kyōtanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

The station is adjacent to a train yard.

Lines

• Kintetsu Corporation
  • Kyoto Line

Local trains to/from the Karasuma Line subway turn at Shin-Tanabe Station, while express trains go further to Kintetsu Nara Station.

Layout

The station has two platforms serving four tracks.

Platforms

1	■ Kintetsu Kyoto Line	Southbound (For Yamato-Saidaiji, Nara, Tenri, and Kashiharajingu-mae)
2	■ Kintetsu Kyoto Line	Southbound (For Yamato-Saidaiji, Nara, Tenri, and Kashiharajingu-mae)
3	■ Kintetsu Kyoto Line	Northbound (For Kintetsu Tambabashi, Takeda, and Kyoto)
4	■ Kintetsu Kyoto Line	Northbound (For Kintetsu Tambabashi, Takeda, and Kyoto)

Around the Station

• Kyoto International University
• Tanabe Central Hospital

History

• 1928 - The station opens as a station of Nara Electric Railroad
• 1963 - NER merges and the station becomes part of Kintetsu
• 1988 - The station is elevated
• 2007 - Starts using PiTaPa

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Kintetsu Kyoto Line
Ōkubo		Express		Shin-Hōsono
Ōkubo		Express (From Kyoto bound for Miyazu)		Kōdo
Tonoshō		Semi-Express		Terminus
Tonoshō		Local		Kōdo