Rikuchū-Kawai Station (陸中川井駅, Rikuchū-Kawai-eki) is a railway station on the Yamada Line in the city of Miyako, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Rikuchū-Kawai Station 陸中川井駅 | ||||||||||||||||
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 Rikuchū-Kawai Station, September 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kawai Dai-go jiwari 102-10, Miyako-shi, Iwate-ken 028-2302 Japan | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°35′50″N 141°40′53″E / 39.5971°N 141.6815°E | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by |  JR East | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Yamada Line | |||||||||||||||
| Distance | 73.5 km from Morioka | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | |||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 November 1933 | |||||||||||||||
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| FY2015 | 36 (daily) | |||||||||||||||
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Lines
editRikuchū-Kawai Station is served by the Yamada Line, and is located 73.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Morioka Station.
Station layout
editRikuchū-Kawai Station has a single side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is staffed.
History
editRikuchū-Kawai Station opened on 30 November 1933.[1] The station was closed from 26 November 1946 to 21 November 1954. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.
It became unstaffed on 22 April 2018.[2]
Passenger statistics
editIn fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 36 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
Surrounding area
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National Route 106 / National Route 340- Kawai Post Office
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Sone, Satoru (2009). "No.21 釜石線・山田線・岩泉線・北上線・八戸線". 週刊 歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 国鉄・JR (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun: 18–19.
- ^ "ＪＲ山田線：最終列車見送る駅長 きょうから５駅で無人化". Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-09-07.
- ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2015年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2015)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
External links
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- Official website (in Japanese)