Higashi-Ikoma Station Explained

Higashi-Ikoma Station
Native Name:	東生駒駅
Native Name Lang:	ja
Address:	1-6, Higashi-Ikoma 1-chome, Ikoma, Nara
Country:	Japan
Coordinates:	34.6917°N 135.7098°W
Operator:	Kintetsu Railway
Line:	Nara Line
Code:	A18
Opened:	1968
Passengers:	18,948 daily
Pass Year:	November 9, 2010^[1]

Higashi-Ikoma Station (東生駒駅) is a railway station on Kintetsu Railway's Nara Line in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, Japan.

Building

The station has an island platform serving 2 tracks between 2 passing tracks.

1st floor

• Bus Terminal (Nara Kotsu)
• Harves
• Resona Bank

2nd floor

• Ticket machines and windows (Commuter tickets and limited express tickets available)
• Station office
• Taxi stand
• Harves
• McDonald's
• Automated teller machine of the Bank of Kyoto, Ltd.
• Automated teller machine of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

3rd floor

A returning track is located in the east of the station. Before the diagram revision in 2006, local trains used the track and returned for Namba during the non-rush hours, and the track is used in the morning and the evening for the local trains returning for Osaka Namba and Amagasaki.

Surroundings

North side

• Kintetsu Higashi-Ikoma Depot (Keihanna Line), Higashi-Hanazono Inspection Area
• Ikoma City Library

South side

• Bus Terminal (Nara Kotsu)
• Kintetsu Cable Network
• NARA IKOMA Rapid Railway Company, Limited
• Mister Donut
• FamilyMart
• Miyawaki Shoten
• Nanto Bank

East side

• Tezukayama University Higashi-Ikoma Campus (Nara)
• Higashi-Ikoma Post Office

West side

• Ikoma Municipal Ikoma Elementary School
• Ikoma Fire Department

Bus Terminal

• Bus stop 1 (for Tezukayama Jutaku)

• Route 74 for Tezukayama Jutaku via Tezukayama University

• Route 75 for Tezukayama Jutaku

• Route 64 for Tezukayama Jutaku via Satsukidai Jutaku

• Route 文 for Tezukayama University
• Bus stop 2 (for Satsukidai and Oze)

• Routes 62 and 63 for Satsukidai and Oze

• Route 76 for Satsukidai
• Bus stop 3 (for Ikoma Station, for Shiraniwadai, Asukano and Hikarigaoka via Route 167)

• Routes 63, 64, 165, 168, and 文 for

• Route 64 for Asukano Center

• Route 165 for Shiraniwadai Station via Asukano Center

• Route 168 and 172 for Hikarigaoka via Asukano Center and Shiraniwadai Station

References

1. Web site: ja:駅別乗降人員. http://www.kintetsu.jp/kouhou/corporation/koutsu/c.html. Kintetsu Corporation. Japanese. 2012-01-02. 2019-06-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190611014019/http://www.kintetsu.jp/kouhou/corporation/koutsu/c.html. dead.