Aozasa Station

Aozasa Station 青笹駅
Aozasa Station, October 2010
Location	Aozasachō, Aozasa 21, Tōno, Iwate （岩手県遠野市青笹町青笹21） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Kamaishi Line
History
Opened	1915

Aozasa Station (青笹駅, Aozasa-eki) is a railway station on the Kamaishi Line in Tōno, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Aozasa Station is served by the Kamaishi Line, and is located 50.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Hanamaki Station.

Station layout

Aozasa Station has a single side platform, serving traffic in both directions. There is no station building, but there is a brick weather shelter, located across the road parallel to the platform. The station is unattended.

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Kamaishi Line
Rapid: no stop
Tōno	Local	Iwate-Kamigō

History

Aozasa Station opened on 1 September 1915 as a station on the Iwate Light Railway, which was nationalized in 1936, becoming the Kamaishi Line. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

Surrounding area

Aozasa Post Office
Japan National Route 283

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aozasa Station.

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Kamaishi Line

Hanamaki Nitanai Shin-Hanamaki Oyamada Tsuchizawa Haruyama Iwanebashi Miyamori Kashiwagidaira Masuzawa Arayamae Iwate-Futsukamachi Ayaori Tōno Aozasa Iwate-Kamigō Hirakura Ashigase Kamiarisu Rikuchū-Ōhashi Dōsen Matsukura Kosano Kamaishi

Coordinates: 39°18′42″N 141°34′09″E / 39.3116°N 141.5692°E / 39.3116; 141.5692

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