Ao Station | |
Native Name: | 粟生駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | 1821 Ao-cho Maeda, Ono-shi, Hyōgo-ken 675-1358 |
Country: | Japan |
Platforms: | 1 bay + 1 side + 1 island platform |
Code: | KB59 (Hojo Railway) |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Passengers: | 1038 (JR) 859 (Shintetsu) daily |
Pass Year: | FY2019 |
Map Type: | Japan Hyogo Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Ao Station |
is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Ono, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated jointly by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West), the third sector and the private Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu).
Ao Station is served by the JR West Kakogawa Line and is 16.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at . It is also the terminal station of the 13.7 kilometer Hōjō Railway Hōjō Line and the 29.2 kilometer Ao Line.
The station consists of a ground-level side platform, island platform and bay platform all connected by a footbridge. The station is unattended.
|-!colspan=5|West Japan Railway Company (JR West)|-!colspan=5|Hōjō Railway|-!colspan=5|Kobe Electric Railway
Ao Station opened on August 10, 1913. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.
In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 1038 passengers daily and the Shintetsu portion of the station was used by 859 passengers daily.[1]