Tōkamachi Station

Tōkamachi Station
十日町駅

Tōkamachi Station for Hokuetsu Express
Location Ushi, Tōkamachi-shi, Niigata-ken
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms 1 side + 2 island
History
Opened 15 November 1927
Traffic
Passengers (FY2015) 530 daily (JR)
Location
Tōkamachi Station
Location within Japan
The east entrance, August 2014

Tōkamachi Station (十日町駅 -eki) is a railway station located in Tōkamachi, Niigata, operated jointly by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the third sector Hokuetsu Express.

Lines

Tōkamachi Station is a station on the Iiyama Line, and is located 75.3 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Toyono. It is also a station for the Hokuhoku Line and is located 15.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Muikamachi Station.

Station layout

The JR portion of the station has a single side platform and island platforms serving three ground-level tracks connected by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The Hokuetsu Express portion of the station has a single elevated island platform serving two tracks.

Station layout

JR East

1 ■ Iiyama Line for Togari-Nozawaonsen, Iiyama, and Nagano
2 ■ Iiyama Line for Togari-Nozawaonsen, Iiyama and Nagano
for Echigo-Kawaguchi and Nagaoka
3 ■ Iiyama Line for Echigo-Kawaguchi and Nagaoka

Hokuetsu Express

1 ■ Hokuhoku Line for Muikamachi and Echigo-Yuzawa
2 ■ Hokuhoku Line for Saigata and Naoetsu

Adjacent stations

←Service→
Iiyama Line
Doichi   Local   Uonuma-Nakajō
Hokuhoku Line
Muikamachi Rapid Matsudai
Shinza Local Matsudai

History

Tōkamachi Station opened on 15 November 1927. Following the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 530 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 各駅の乗車人員 (2015年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2015)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
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Coordinates: 37°8′5.53″N 138°45′24.06″E / 37.1348694°N 138.7566833°E / 37.1348694; 138.7566833

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