Kaminoyama-Onsen Station

Kaminoyama-Onsen Station
かみのやま温泉駅

Kaminoyama-Onsen Station in August 2007
Location 1 Yarai, Kaminoyama, Yamagata
(山形県上山市矢来一丁目)
Japan
Coordinates Coordinates: 38°09′08″N 140°16′43″E / 38.152236°N 140.278653°E / 38.152236; 140.278653
Operated by JR East
Line(s) Yamagata Shinkansen, Ōu Main Line
Connections
  • Bus stop
History
Opened 1901
Previous names Kaminoyama (until 1992)
Traffic
Passengers (FY2012) 1,673 daily

Kaminoyama-Onsen Station (かみのやま温泉駅 Kaminoyama-onsen-eki) is a railway station in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).[1]

Lines

Kaminoyama-Onsen Station is served by the Ōu Main Line (Yamagata Line) and the Yamagata Shinkansen. It is 75.0 rail kilometers from Fukushima Station.[2]

Station layout

Kaminoyama-Onsen Station has a single side platform and a single island platform serving three tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.[1]

Platforms

1  Yamagata Shinkansen for Yamagata and Shinjō
 Yamagata Line for Yamagata and Shinjō
2  Yamagata Shinkansen for Yonezawa, Fukushima, Ōmiya, and Tokyo
 Yamagata Line for Akayu and Yonezawa
3  Yamagata Line for Yamagata and Shinjō
for Akayu and Yonezawa

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Yamagata Shinkansen
Akayu   Tsubasa   Yamagata
Ōu Main Line (Yamagata Line)
Uzen-Nakayama   Local   Mokichi Kinenkan-mae

History

The station opened on 15 February 1901 as Kaminoyama Station (上ノ山駅).[2] It was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.[2] Kaminoyama Station was renamed Kaminoyama-Onsen Station on 1 July 1992, coinciding with the opening of the Yamagata Shinkansen.[2] A new station building was completed in June 2004.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2012, the station was used by an average of 1,673 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]

Surrounding area

References

  1. 1 2 各駅情報(かみのやま温泉駅) [Station Information (Kaminoyama-Onsen Station)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] II. Japan: JTB. p. 529. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
  3. 各駅の乗車人員 (2012年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 26 December 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stations of Ōu Main Line.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, December 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.