Mikawashima Station

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三河島駅 Mikawashima
Station entrance under elevated tracks
Station statistics
Address	Arakawa, Tokyo
Lines	Jōban Line
Structure	1 island platform
Tracks	4
Other information
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	3.613 million ▲ 2%
Services
Preceding station   JR East   Following station Nippori toward Ueno Jōban Line Minami-Senju toward Sendai

Mikawashima Station (三河島駅, Mikawashima-eki^?) is a train station on the Jōban Line in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan.

[edit] Accident

On 1962-05-03, there was a crash between a freight train and two passenger trains which resulted in 160 deaths and 296 injuries.

The crash occurred about 350 meters east of Mikawashima Station when an Ueno-bound passenger train (#2000H) crashes into the wreckage of a crash between a Toride-bound passenger train (#2117H) and a Mito-bound freight train (#287) as well as a crowd of evacuating passengers from #2117H.

[edit] See also

• List of rail accidents

v • d • e Stations of the JR Jōban Line Ueno - Nippori - Mikawashima - Minami-Senju - Kita-Senju - Matsudo - Kashiwa - Abiko - Tennōdai - Toride - Fujishiro - Sanuki - Ushiku - Hitachino-Ushiku - Arakawaoki - Tsuchiura - Kandatsu - Takahama - Ishioka - Hatori - Iwama - Tomobe - Uchihara - Akatsuka - Kairakuen - Mito - Katsuta - Sawa - Tōkai - Ōmika - Hitachi-Taga - Hitachi - Ogitsu - Jūō - Takahagi - Minami-Nakagō - Isohara - Ōtsukō - Nakoso - Ueda - Izumi - Yumoto - Uchigō - Iwaki - Kusano - Yotsukura - Hisanohama - Suetsugi - Hirono - Kido - Tatsuta - Tomioka - Yonomori - Ōno - Futaba - Namie - Momouchi - Odaka - Iwaki-Ōta - Haranomachi - Kashima - Nittaki - Sōma - Komagamine - Shinchi - Sakamoto - Yamashita - Hamayoshida - Watari - Ōkuma - Iwanuma - Tatekoshi - Natori - Minami-Sendai - Taishidō - Nagamachi - Sendai Stations served only by the Chiyoda Line through service local trains are omitted.