Kamikitachō Station (上北町駅, Kamikitachō-eki) is a railway station in the town of Tōhoku in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.
Kamikitachō 上北町 | ||||||||||||||||
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 Kamikitachō Station in September 2023 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 1-22-97 Kamikita Kita, Tōhoku, Kamikita District, Aomori Prefecture 039-2404 Japan | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°43′58.30″N 141°15′52.96″E / 40.7328611°N 141.2647111°E | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by |  Aoimori Railway | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | |||||||||||||||
| Distance | 57.4 km from Aomori | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side + 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed | |||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 September 1891 | |||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Numazaki (until 1959) | |||||||||||||||
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| 554 daily boardings (2018) | ||||||||||||||||
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Location
editKamikitachō Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 57.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Aomori Station. It is 674.7 kilometers from Tokyo Station.
Surrounding area
edit- Lake Ogawara
- Kamikita Post Office
Station layout
editKamikitachō Station has one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, connected to a single-story station building by a footbridge. Only the outer tracks 1 and 3 are in regular operation. The station is staffed.
Platforms
edit| 1 | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | for Noheji and Aomori |
| 2 | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | (siding) |
| 3 | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | for Misawa and Hachinohe |
History
editKamikitachō Station was opened on 1 September 1891 as Numazaki Station (沼崎駅, Numazaki-eki) on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railway (JNR), on 1 July 1906. On 1 October 1959, the station was renamed to its present name. With the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
On 4 December 2010, the Tōhoku Shinkansen was successfully extended north to Shin-Aomori Station from Hachinohe.[1] As a result of the opening of the bullet train between the two stations, that section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to the Aoimori Railway Company from JR East on the same day.[2]
Services
editKamikitachō Station is primarily served by trains operating on a local service on the Aoimori Railway Line between Aomori and Hachinohe. It is served by two rapid express trains, the Shimokita service operated jointly by JR East and the Aoimori Railway between Hachinohe and Ōminato and the 560M train operated jointly by the Aoimori Railway and the Iwate Galaxy Railway between Aomori and Morioka. Passenger trains serve Kamikitachō Station just over 17 hours a day from 6:12 am to 11:23 pm.[3] In 2018, a daily average of 554 passengers boarded trains at Kamikitachō Station,[4] an increase from the daily average of 213 passengers the station served in 2010, the final year of its ownership by JR East.[5] In 2018, the station was the tenth busiest on the Aoimori Railway Line, excluding Aomori and Hachinohe stations, and the busiest along the rail line in the town of Tōhoku.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Tokyo-Aomori bullet train debuts". The Japan Times. Aomori. Kyodo. 5 December 2010. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "青い森鉄道線について" [About the Aoimori Railway Line] (in Japanese). Aoimori Railway Co., Ltd. 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ "青い森鉄道列車時刻表" [Aoimori Railway Train Timetable] (PDF) (in Japanese). Aoimori Railway Co., Ltd. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ a b "上北町駅（青い森鉄道）の乗降客数の統計" [Passenger statistics of Kamikitachō Station]. statresearch (in Japanese). 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ "各駅の乗車人員" [Passengers at each station] (in Japanese). JR East. 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
External links
edit- Aoimori Railway station information page (in Japanese)
