Itoigawa Station

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Itoigawa Station
糸魚川駅
File:糸魚川駅 (拡大).jpg
The station building, December 2013
Location 1-7-10 Ōmachi, Itoigawa, Niigata
(新潟県糸魚川市大町1丁目7番10号)
Japan
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History
Opened 1912

Itoigawa Station (糸魚川駅 Itoigawa-eki?) is a railway station in Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and the third-sector railway operator Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

Lines

Itoigawa Station is served by the JR West high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen and the local Ōito Line as well as the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line.

Station layout

The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

The station has one side platform and one island platform, serving four tracks in total. The elevated shinkansen platforms opened on 14 March 2015.


1  Nihonkai Hisui Line for Naoetsu
2  Nihonkai Hisui Line for Naoetsu
for Ichiburi
3  Nihonkai Hisui Line for Ichiburi
4  Ōito Line for Minami-Otari
11  Hokuriku Shinkansen for Nagano and Tokyo
12  Hokuriku Shinkansen for Toyama and Kanazawa

The departure melody used for the shinkansen platforms is the traditional children's song "Haru yo Koi" (春よ来い?), the lyrics for which were written by ja (Gyofū Sōma), a native of Itoigawa.[1]

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Kagayaki: no stop
Jōetsumyōkō   Hakutaka   Kurobe-Unazukionsen
Nihonkai Hisui Line
Ōmi Local Kajiyashiki
Ōito Line
Himekawa Local Terminus

History

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The former station building in December 2005

The station opened on 16 December 1912.[2] With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.[2]

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies.[3] From this date, operations of former Hokuriku Main Line services were transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

See also

References

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