Kai-Sumiyoshi Station

Kai-Sumiyoshi Station 甲斐住吉駅
JR Kai-Sumiyoshi Station, January 2006
Location	Sumiyoshi 2-chome, Kōfu, Yamanashi （山梨県甲府市住吉二丁目） Japan
Coordinates	35°38′11″N 138°34′11″E / 35.6363°N 138.5698°E / 35.6363; 138.5698
Operated by	JR Central
Line(s)	Minobu Line
History
Opened	1931
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	470 daily

Kai-Sumiyoshi Station (甲斐住吉駅, Kai-Sumiyoshi-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 83.1 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Minobu Line at Fuji Station.

History

Kai-Sumiyoshi Station was opened on April 1, 1931 as a signal stop on the Fuji-Minobu Line. It was elevated to a full station on October 1, 1938. 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 control of the Central Japan Railway Company.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Minobu Line

Layout

Kai-Sumiyoshi Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional tracks. The station is unattended. There is no station building, but only a rain shelter on the platform.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

External links

• (in Japanese) Minobu Line station information