Higashi-Hanawa Station

Higashi-Hanawa Station 東花輪駅
JR Higashi-Hanawa Station, January 2006
Location
Prefecture	Yamanashi (See other stations in Yamanashi)
City	Chūō
Neighborhood etc.	Higashi-Hanawa 888
Coordinates	35°35′41″N 138°31′37″E / 35.5946°N 138.5270°E / 35.5946; 138.5270
Postal code	409-3842
(in Japanese)	山梨県中央市東花輪888
History
Year opened	1928
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR Central
Line(s)	Minobu Line
Statistics	843 passengers/day 2008

Higashi-Hanawa Station (東花輪駅, Higashi-Hanawa-eki) is a railway station on the Minobu Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in the city of Chūō, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The station is located 76.3 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Minobu Line at Fuji Station.

History

Higashi-Hanawa Station was opened on March 30, 1928 as a station on the Fuji-Minobu Line. The line came under control of the Japanese Government Railways on May 1, 1941. The station building was reconstructed in 1950. The JGR became the JNR (Japan National Railway) after World War II. Along with the division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the joint control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company and the Japan Freight Railway Company. However, scheduled freight operations were discontinued from September 29, 1998 and the freight handling facilities were abandoned by March 31, 2001.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Minobu Line

Layout

Higashi-Hanawa Station has a single island platform serving two tracks. There are ten sets of unused side tracks running parallel to the platform, which were formerly used to support freight depot operations. The station is one of the few stations on the Minobu line which is attended.

Platform

Adjacent stations

External links

• (Japanese) Minobu Line station information