Kurashiki Station

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Kurashiki Station (倉敷駅, Kurashiki Eki^?) is a JR West Sanyō Main Line and Hakubi Line station located in 1-1 1-chōme, Achi, Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. All Sanyō Main Line and Hakubi Line express and limited express trains stop at this station. The Mizushima Coastal Railway Mizushima Main Line Kurashiki-shi Station is near the station.

Contents 1 History 2 Station building and platforms 3 Environs 3.1 South entrance 3.2 North entrance 3.3 Highway access 4 Connecting lines 5 External links

[edit] History

• 1891-04-25: Kurashiki Station opens as a station on the San'yō Railway
• 1906-12-01: Kurashiki station is nationalized
• 1987-04-01: Japanese National Railways is privatized, and Kurashiki Station becomes a JR West station
• Spring 2007: Automatic ticket gates will be installed and begin being used
• Summer 2007: The ICOCA card is scheduled to be accepted

[edit] Station building and platforms

Kurashiki Station features both side- and island-style platform capable of handling several lines simultaneously. Each platform has an upper (上り) and lower end (下り) of the platform.

1	█ Sanyō Main Line (lower)	to Shin-Kurashiki • Kasaoka • Fukuyama • Mihara • Hiroshima
	Overnight Limited Express (寝台特急, Shindai Tokkyū?) (Naha, Akatsuki) (lower)	to Kokura • Hakata • Kumamoto • Nagasaki (all in Kyūshū)
2	(used for Sanyō Main Line and Mizushima Coastal Railway freight and special trains)
3	█ Sanyō Main Line (upper)	to Okayama • Seto • Wake • Aioi • Himeji • Banshū-Akō
	Overnight Limited Express (Naha, Akatsuki) (upper)	to Osaka • Tokyo
4	█ Hakubi Line	to Sōja • Bitchū-Takahashi • Niimi • Yonago
	Limited Express (Yakumo) (lower)	to Niimi • Yonago • Matsue • Izumo
	Overnight Limited Express (Sunrise Izumo) (lower)	to Niimi • Yonago • Matsue • Izumo
5	█ Sanyō Main Line (upper)	to Okayama • Seto • Wake • Aioi • Himeji • Banshū-Akō
	Limited Express (Yakumo) (upper)	to Okayama
	Overnight Limited Express (Sunrise Izumo) (upper)	to Tokyo

Facilities located within the station building include the LeBlanc department store, the Hotel Kurashiki, the Nippon Travel Agency, McDonald's, and ATMs for Chugoku Bank and Tomato Bank.

[edit] Environs

[edit] South entrance

At the south entrance to Kurashiki Station is Kurashiki-shi Station, operated by Mizushima Coastal Railway as a station on the Mizushima Main Line. Chayamachi Station, which services the Uno and Honshibasan Lines (including the Seto Ōhashi Line) is accessible via a 22 minute bus ride operated by Shimotsui Electric Railway.

• Ōhara Art Museum
• Kurashiki Bikan Area
• Kurashiki Station South Entrance Toyoko Inn
• Kurashiki City Plaza East Building
• Kurashiki City Plaza West Building
  • Mizuho Bank
• Tenmaya department store
  • Japan Postal savings ATM
• Marunaka Kurashiki Station store (formerly Daiei Kurashiki)
• Kurashiki Post Office and Kurashiki Japan Post Main Office
• Kagawa Bank
• Ryobi Sightseeing Bus Company, Kurashiki Office
• Jumbo JJ Kurashiki Station Store (pachinko)
• Mizushima Taxi

[edit] North entrance

Outside the north entrance is Kurashiki Chibori Park, a popular amusement park .

• Kohnan Kurashiki Chibori Park Store (home center)
• Kurashiki Kotobuki-chō Post Office
• Kurashiki Suishō High School
• Kurashiki Municipal Higashi Junior High School

[edit] Highway access

• Japan National Route 429 (formerly Japan National Route 2)
• Okayama Prefectural Route 24 (Kurashiki-Kiyone Route)

[edit] Connecting lines

All lines are JR West lines.

Sanyō Main Line

Express (Sun Liner)

Okayama Station — Kurashiki Station — Shin-Kurashiki Station

Local (becomes an express west of Saijō)

Nakashō Station — Kurashiki Station — Nishiachi Station

Hakubi Line

Local

(Nakashō Station) — Kurashiki Station — Kiyone Station

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) JR West
• (Japanese) Google Maps