Aichi Electric Railway

Japanese: 愛知電気鉄道 - あいちでんきてつどう

...Located almost in the center of Aichi Prefecture, in the heart of the Okazaki Plain, this is the economic, cultural and transportation hub of the Nishi-Mikawa region. It was incorporated as a city in 1916. Its population was 322,621 (1995). Since the early Jomon period, people have lived along the Yahagi River and the Oto River, and it has long been a key point for land and water transport. In the mid-15th century, Okazaki Castle was built, and in the early modern period, it flourished as a castle town with a land area of 50,000 koku, Okazaki and Fujikawa as post towns on the Tokaido road, and as a river port town for land and water freight on the Yahagi River. In the Meiji period, the town's function as a transportation settlement declined due to the avoidance of the Tokaido Line (opened in 1888), but it regained vitality in 1923 when the Aichi Electric Railway (now the Nagoya Railroad) linking Nagoya and Toyohashi was opened. ...

From Nagoya Railroad

...In addition to the Nagoya Main Line between Toyohashi, Shin-Nagoya and Shin-Gifu, it consists of numerous branch lines such as the Mikawa Line, Tokoname Line (Jingumae to Tokoname), Kowa Line, Inuyama Line (Biwajima Junction to Shin-Unuma), and Bisai Line, as well as the Minomachi Streetcar Line and the Monkey Park Monorail Line. It originated with the Inuyama Line built by Nagoya Electric Railroad, founded in 1894, and the Tokoname Line built by Aichi Electric Railroad, founded in 1910. Nagoya Electric Railroad went through periods when it was called Nagoya Railroad and Mei-Gi Railroad, and in 1935 it merged with Aichi Electric Railroad to become Nagoya Railroad. During that time it has integrated almost all of the small and medium-sized private railways in the area. ...

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Japanese:

…愛知県のほぼ中央，岡崎平野の中心に位置する西三河地方の経済･文化･交通の中心都市。1916年市制。人口32万2621(1995)。縄文時代早期から矢作（やはぎ）川，乙（おと）川沿いに居住が営まれ，古くから水陸交通の要衝であったが，15世紀半ば岡崎城が築かれ，近世には5万石の城下町，岡崎，藤川は東海道の宿場町，矢作川の水陸貨物の中継河港町として栄えた。明治に入り，東海道線(1888開通)を忌避したため交通集落としての機能は衰えたが，1923年に名古屋と豊橋を結ぶ愛知電鉄(現，名古屋鉄道)が開通して活況を取りもどした。…

【名古屋鉄道】より

…豊橋～新名古屋～新岐阜間の名古屋本線のほか三河線，常滑（とこなめ）線(神宮前～常滑)，河和（こうわ）線，犬山線(枇杷島分岐点～新鵜沼)，尾西線など多数の支線と路面電車の美濃町線，モンキーパークモノレール線などから成る。1894年創立の名古屋電気鉄道が建設した犬山線と，1910年創立の愛知電気鉄道が建設した常滑線が発祥で，名古屋電気鉄道は名古屋鉄道，名岐鉄道と称した時代を経て，1935年愛知電気鉄道を合併して名古屋鉄道となった。その間，周辺の中小民鉄をほとんど統合している。…

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