Tsutsuishi Station

Station building

Tsutsuishi Station (筒石駅 Tsutsuishi-eki) is a railway station in Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan.

Lines

Layout

The platforms are inside the 11,353 metre long Kubiki Tunnel, 40 metres below ground, connected to the entrance gate by 290 steps. There is only a stairway, with no elevator or escalator. Due to the air pressure generated by passing trains, access to the platform is limited and a protected waiting room with heavy metal doors keep passengers safe from hurricane-like wind. Average daily ridership at this station is approximately 60, mostly students.[1]

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Nihonkai Hisui Line
Nō Local Nadachi

History

The station opened on December 16, 1912, as part of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR, JNR after 1949). On October 1, 1969, a new Tsutsuishi Station was opened. Japanese National Railways (JNR) began to serve new line in Itoigawa - Naoetsu, electrified and double-tracked, and quit old line on shore of the Japan Sea. On April 1, 1987, with the privatization of JNR, JR West took over control of this station.

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies.[2] From this date, Tsutsuishi Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Baseel, Casey. "Crazy station’s 290 steps from gate to platform make it the deepest and spookiest in Niigata". Rocket News 24 English. Socio Corporation. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Osano, Kagetoshi (March 2015). 　北陸新幹線並行在来線各社の姿 [Guide to companies operating conventional lines alongside the Hokuriku Shinkansen]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 44 no. 371 (Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun). pp. 28–33.

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Coordinates: 37°07′39″N 138°03′38″E / 37.1276°N 138.0606°E / 37.1276; 138.0606

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