Aburakawa Station

Aburakawa 油川
File:Aburakawa sta ekisha.jpg
Location	Hajiro Sawada 73, Aomori, Aomori （青森県青森市大字羽白字沢田73） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Tsugaru Line
History
Opened	1951

Aburakawa Station (油川駅, Aburakawa-eki) is a railway station on the JR East Tsugaru Line located in the city of Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is 6.0 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Tsugaru Line at Aomori Station. The station is a kan'i itaku station, administered by Aomori Station, and operated by the local Jaster Corporation, with point-of-sales terminal installed. Ordinary tickets, express tickets, and reserved-seat tickets for all JR lines are on sale.

History

Aburakawa Station was opened on December 5, 1951 as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Freight operations were discontinued from July 1970. The station became a kan'i itaku station on April 1, 1971, operated by the Japan Travel Bureau. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East, and was operated by JR East until October 1, 2003, when it again became a kan'i itaku station, this time under the Jaster Corporation.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Tsugaru Line

Station layout

Aburakawa Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The short platform requires that trains longer than seven carriages use a door cut system.

Route bus

• Aburakawa-Eki-dōri bus stop
• Aomori municipal Bus
  • For Ushirogata via Okunai
  • For Furukawa via Okidate

Surrounding area

• Aburakawa Post office
• Aomori-Kita high school

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Tsugaru Line
Aomori		Local		Tsugaru-Miyata

See also

• List of Railway Stations in Japan

External links

• JR East station information page (Japanese)