Kanente Station

Kanente Station 金手駅
JR Kanente Station, January 2006
Location	Jōto 4-chome, Kōfu, Yamanashi （山梨県甲府市城東一丁目4） Japan
Coordinates	35°39′45″N 138°34′43″E / 35.6624°N 138.5787°E / 35.6624; 138.5787
Operated by	JR Central
Line(s)	Minobu Line
History
Opened	1929
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	54 daily

Kanente Station (金手駅, Kanente-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 87.2 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Minobu Line at Fuji Station.

History

Kanente Station was opened on August 15, 1929 as a passenger station on the Fuji-Minobu Line. Freight operations began the system was consigned to the government on October 1, 1938. The line came under control of the Japanese Government Railways on May 1, 1941. The station burned down during the Bombing of Kofu in World War II. The JGR became the JNR (Japan National Railway) after World War II. It was reopened on May 10, 1953. All freight operations were discontinued on April 1, 1959. The station has been unattended since October 1 1970. 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

Kanente Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. There is no station building, but only a rain shelter on the platform.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

External links

• (in Japanese) Minobu Line station information