Ajigaura Station

Ajigaura Station
阿字ヶ浦駅
Station building, July 2009
Location
Prefecture Ibaraki
(See other stations in Ibaraki)
City Hitachinaka
History
Year opened 1928
Rail services
Operator(s) Hitachinaka Seaside Railway
Line(s) Minato Line
Statistics 53 passengers/day (FY2011)

Ajigaura Station (阿字ヶ浦駅 Ajigaura-eki) is a railway station on the Minato Line in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Hitachinaka Seaside Railway.

Lines

Ajigaura Station is the terminus of the 14.3 km single-track Hitachinaka Seaside Railway Minato Line from Katsuta.

Station layout

The platforms were built to handle trains of up to seven cars in the days in which direct Ajigaura express trains ran directly from Ueno in Tokyo.

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Minato Line
Isozaki - Terminus

History

Ajigaura Station opened on 7 July 1928.[1] It became an unstaffed station from 1 April 1996.[1]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2011, the station was used by an average of 53 passengers daily.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 207. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.

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Coordinates: 36°23′01″N 140°36′43″E / 36.3835°N 140.612°E