Furukawa Station

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古川駅 Furukawa
Station statistics
Lines	East Rikuu Line Tōhoku Shinkansen
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	20 April 1913
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	1.829 million ▼ 2%
Services
Preceding station   JR East   Following station Tsukanome toward Shinjō East Rikuu Line Rikuzen-Yachi toward Kogota Sendai toward Tokyo Tōhoku Shinkansen Kurikoma-Kōgen toward Hachinohe

Furukawa Station (古川駅) is a JR East railway station located in Ōsaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

[edit] Line

• Tōhoku Shinkansen
• East Riku'u Line

[edit] History

• April 20, 1913: Station is opened.
• June 11, 1915: Station name is changed to Rikuzen-Furukawa Station.
• November 1, 1980: Station name is changed back to Furukawa Station, and the station is relocated to its present spot.
• June 23, 1982: Service on the Tōhoku Shinkansen is started.

[edit] Adjacent stations

v • d • e Stations of the JR Tōhoku Shinkansen Line Tokyo - Ueno - Ōmiya - Oyama - Utsunomiya - Nasushiobara - Shin-Shirakawa - Kōriyama - Fukushima - Shiroishi-Zaō - Sendai - Furukawa - Kurikoma-Kōgen - Ichinoseki - Mizusawa-Esashi - Kitakami - Shin-Hanamaki - Morioka - Iwate-Numakunai - Ninohe - Hachinohe Under Construction (to be opened in 2011 or later): Shichinohe - Shin-Aomori Yamagata Shinkansen split begins at Fukushima Akita Shinkansen split begins at Morioka

v • d • e Stations of the East Rikuu Line Kogota · Kitaura · Rikuzen-Yachi · Furukawa · Tsukanome · Nishi-Furukawa · Higashi-Ōsaki · Nishi-Ōsaki · Iwadeyama · Yūbikan · Kaminome · Ikezuki · Kawatabi-Onsen · Naruko-Gotenyu · Naruko-Onsen · Nakayamadaira-Onsen · Sakaida · Akakura-Onsen · Tachikōji · Mogami · Ōhori · Usugi · Semi-Onsen · Higashi-Nagasawa · Nagasawa · Minami-Shinjō · Shinjō

Coordinates: 38.570582° N 140.967722° E