Minami-Kōfu Station

Minami-Kōfu Station
南甲府駅
JR Minami-Kōfu Station, January 2006
Location
Prefecture Yamanashi
(See other stations in Yamanashi)
City Kōfu
Neighborhood etc. 1-32 Minamiguchi-cho
Coordinates35°38′37″N 138°34′42″E / 35.6436°N 138.5784°E
Postal code400-0863
(in Japanese)山梨県甲府市南口町1-36
History
Year opened 1928
Former name Kōfu-Minamiguchi Station
Present name since 1938
Rail services
Operator(s) JR Central
Line(s) Minobu Line
Statistics 563 passengers/day 2008

Minami-Kōfu Station (南甲府駅 Minami-Kōfu-eki) is a railway station on the Minobu Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The station is located 84.0 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Minobu Line at Fuji Station.

History

Minami-Kōfu Station was opened on March 30, 1928 as Kōfu-Minamiguchi Station (甲府南口 Kōfu-Minamiguchi-eki) on the Fuji-Minobu Line. When operations were consigned to the government on October 1, 1938, the station name was changed to its present name. The line came under control of the Japanese Government Railways on May 1, 1941. 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 of the Central Japan Railway Company and the Japan Freight Railway Company. All freight operations were discontinued in October 1997, and the freight depot was abandoned as of March 31, 2001.

Lines

Layout

Minami-Kōfu Station has a single island platform. The station is one of the few stations on the Minobu Line which is attended. The marshalling yard for the Minobu Line is also at this station.

Platforms

1 ■Minobu Line For Kōfu
2 ■Minobu Line For Fuji, Minobu

Adjacent stations

«Service»
JR Central
Kai-Sumiyoshi   Minobu Line   Zenkōji

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