Murayama Station (Yamagata)

Murayama Station 村山駅
East entrance of Murayama Station in May 2011
Location	1 Tateoka-shimmachi, Murayama, Yamagata （山形県村山市楯岡新町一丁目） Japan
Coordinates	38°28′24″N 140°23′11″E / 38.473442°N 140.386325°E / 38.473442; 140.386325Coordinates: 38°28′24″N 140°23′11″E / 38.473442°N 140.386325°E / 38.473442; 140.386325
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Ōu Main Line Yamagata Shinkansen
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1901
Previous names	Tateoka (until 1999)
Traffic

Passengers (FY2010)	1,207 daily

Murayama Station (村山駅, Murayama-eki) is a railway station in Murayama, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Murayama Station is served by the Ōu Main Line and the Yamagata Shinkansen, with direct high-speed Tsubasa services to and from Tokyo. It is located 113.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Fukushima Station.^[1]

Station layout

West entrance, September 2012

Murayama Station has one side platform and one island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Yamagata Shinkansen	for Yamagata, Fukushima, Ōmiya, and Tokyo
1	■ Yamagata Line	for Tendō, and Yamagata
2	■ Yamagata Shinkansen	for Yamagata, Fukushima, Ōmiya, and Tokyo for Shinjō
2	■ Yamagata Line	for Tendō and Yamagata for Shinjō
3	■ Yamagata Shinkansen	for Shinjō
3	■ Yamagata Line	for Shinjō for Yamagata

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Yamagata Shinkansen
Sakurambo-Higashine	Tsubasa		Ōishida
Ōu Main Line (Yamagata Line)
Sodesaki	-	Kita-Ōishida

History

The station opened on 23 August 1901 as Tateoka Station (楯岡駅).^[2] A new station building was completed in March 1935. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.^[1] The station was renamed Murayama Station on 4 December 1999 with the start of Yamagata Shinkansen operations. The current station building was completed on the same date.

Surrounding area

Murayama City Hall
Murayama Post Office
National Route 13

References

1 2 Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] II. Japan: JTB. pp. 530–531. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
↑ 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 126. ISBN 4-533-00503-9.

External links

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JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Yamagata Shinkansen

Fukushima Yonezawa Takahata Akayu Kaminoyama-Onsen Yamagata Tendō Sakurambo-Higashine Murayama Ōishida Shinjō For stations between Tokyo and Fukushima, see Tōhoku Shinkansen

Stations of the Ōu Main Line

Fukushima to Shinjō (Yamagata Line)	Fukushima Sasakino Niwasaka Akaiwa Itaya Tōge Ōsawa Sekine Yonezawa Oitama Takahata Akayu Nakagawa Uzen-Nakayama Kaminoyama-Onsen Mokichi Kinenkan-mae Zaō Yamagata Kita-Yamagata Uzen-Chitose Minami-Dewa Urushiyama Takatama Tendō-Minami Tendō Midaregawa Jimmachi Sakurambo-Higashine Higashine Murayama Sodesaki Ōishida Kita-Ōishida Ashisawa Funagata Shinjō

Shinjō to Ōmagari	Shinjō Izumita Uzen-Toyosato Mamurogawa Kamabuchi Ōtaki Nozoki Innai Yokobori Mitsuseki Kami-Yuzawa Yuzawa Shimo-Yuzawa Jūmonji Daigo Yanagita Yokote Gosannen Iizume Ōmagari

Ōmagari to Aomori (formerly Ōu North Line)	Ōmagari Jingūji Kawarino Mineyoshikawa Ugo-Sakai Ōbarino Wada Yotsugoya Akita Tsushizaki Kami-Iijima Oiwake Ōkubo Ugo-Iizuka Ikawa-Sakura Hachirōgata Koikawa Kado Moritake Kita-Kanaoka Higashi-Noshiro Tsurugata Tomine Futatsui Maeyama Takanosu Nukazawa Hayaguchi Shimokawazoi Ōdate Shirasawa Jimba Tsugaru-Yunosawa Ikarigaseki Nagamine Ōwani-Onsen Ishikawa Hirosaki Naijōshi Kawabe Kita-Tokiwa Namioka Daishaka Tsurugasaka Tsugaru-Shinjō Shin-Aomori Aomori

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