Doai Station

Doai Station, underground level

Bottom of the steps, Doai Station, underground level

Doai Station, ground level

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Doai Station (土合駅, Doai Eki) is a railway station on the Joetsu Line of East Japan Railway Company, located in Minakami, Gunma, Japan.

The platform for the northbound trains (to Echigo-Yuzawa and Nagaoka) is located 70 meters under ground, in the middle of Shin-Shimizu Tunnel (13,490m). It takes 10 minutes to walk the 486 steps from the ticket gate to the platform. The other platform for the southbound trains (to Minakami) is at street level, above ground.

The climb up the steps from the underground platform features at the start of the novel, NHK dramatization and movie versions of Climber's High by Hideo Yokoyama.

Station layout

Underground level

A side platform in the tunnel serves the northbound trains.

■Joetsu Line

for Echigo-Yuzawa, Urasa, Nagaoka, Niigata

Ground level

An island platform with one active and one dismantled tracks serves the southbound trains.

■Joetsu Line

for Minakami, Takasaki, Ueno

Surroundings

Mount Tanigawa (one of the "100 famous mountains in Japan")

History

September 1, 1931 : It was set up as a signal box with the opening to traffic of Jouetsu Line.
December 19, 1936 : It became a railway station.
September 27, 1967 : Shin-Shimizu Tunnel openes, and Joetsu Line was double-tracked; the underground-level platform in this tunnel opened.

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Yubiso		Joetsu Line		Tsuchitaru

Stations of the Jōetsu Line