Kuriyagawa Station

Kuriyagawa Station
厨川駅
Kuriyagawa Station, August 2007
Location
Prefecture Iwate
(See other stations in Iwate)
City Morioka
Neighborhood etc. 1-17-1 Kuriyagawa
Postal code020-0124
(in Japanese)岩手県盛岡市厨川一丁目17-1
History
Year opened 1918
Rail services
Operator(s) Iwate Ginga Railway Company
Line(s) Iwate Ginga Railway Line
Statistics 2522 passengers/day (FY2012)

Kuriyagawa Station (厨川駅 Kuriyagawa-eki) is a railway station in the city of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Iwate Ginga Railway. [1]

Lines

Kuriyagawa Station is served by the Iwate Ginga Railway Line, and is located 5.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Morioka Station and 540.9 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station. Trains of the Hanawa Line, which officially terminates at Kōma usually continue on to Morioka Station, stopping at all intermediate stations, including Aoyama Station.

Station layout

Kuriyagawa Station has one island side platforms connected to the station building by an overhead crossing. The station is staffed.

Platforms

1 Iwate Ginga Railway Line for Morioka
Hanawa Line for Ōbuke, Araya-Shinmachi and Kazuno-Hanawa
2 Iwate Ginga Railway Line for Iwate-Numakunai, Ninohe and Hachinohe

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Iwate Ginga Railway Line
Aoyama - Sugo
Hanawa Line
Aoyama express Hachimantai Sugo
Aoyama - Sugo

History

Kuriyagawa Station was opened on November 1, 1918.[1] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987 and was transferred to the Iwate Ginga Railway on 1 September 2002.

Surrounding area

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Iwate Galaxy Railway Co., Ltd. "Kuriyagawa Station" (in Japanese). Retrieved December 31, 2013.

External links

Coordinates: 39°44′40.7″N 141°7′45.7″E / 39.744639°N 141.129361°E