Iyo-Sangawa Station is served by the JR Shikoku Yosan Line and is located 81.7 km from the beginning of the line at Takamatsu.[3] Yosan line local, Rapid Sunport, and Nanpū Relay services stop at the station.[4]
Layout
The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. The station building is unstaffed and serves as a waiting room. Access to platform 2 is by means of a footbridge.[2][5][6]
Sidings branch off the tracks on both sides of the station.[3]
A view of the platforms of Iyo-Sangawa Station in 2010. A siding can be seen branching off track 2 on the right.
The station opened on 1 April 1933 as a new station on the existing Yosan Line. At that time the station was operated by Japanese Government Railways, later becoming Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.[7][8]
^ ab"伊予寒川" [Iyo-Sangawa]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
^ abKawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第2巻 四国西部エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 2 Western Shikoku] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 10, 65. ISBN9784062951616.