Imaizumi Station
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Imaizumi Station 今泉駅 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Imaizumi Station in 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Imaizumi, Nagai-shi, Yamagata-ken Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°03′24″N 140°02′39″E / 38.056667°N 140.04425°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 23.0 km from Yonezawa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 15 November 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| FY2016 | 218(JR) 612 (Yamagata Railway) daily | ||||||||||||||||||||
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left:Yonasaka Line for Hagyū
right:Flower Nagai Line for Tokiniwa
Imaizumi Station (今泉駅, Imaizumi-eki) is a junction railway station in the city of Nagai, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) with the Yamagata Railway as a tenant.
Lines
[edit]Imaizumi Station is a station on the JR East Yonesaka Line and is 23.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Yonezawa Station. It is also a station on the Yamagata Railway Flower Nagai Line, and is located 12.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Akayu Station.
Station layout
[edit]The station has two island platforms serving four tracks connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Platforms
[edit]| 1 | ■ Flower Nagai Line | for Miyauchi and Akayu |
| 2 | ■ Flower Nagai Line | for Nagai and Arato |
| 3 | ■ Yonesaka Line | for Uzen-Komatsu and Yonezawa |
| 4 | ■ Yonesaka Line | for Uzen-Tsubaki, Oguni and Sakamachi for Uzen-Komatsu and Yonezawa |
History
[edit]Imaizumi Station opened on 15 November 1914 as a station on the Nagai Light Railway Line. The Yonesaka Line began operations from 28 September 1926. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, and became a station on the Yamagata Railway from 25 October 1988.[1]
The Yonesaka Line (Imaizumi - Hagyū) and Flower Nagai Line (Imaizumi - Tokiniwa) share about 2 km of track. The junction point was called Shirakawa Junction (白川信号場, Shirakawa shingōjō).
Passenger statistics
[edit]In fiscal 2016, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 218 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2] and the Yamagata Railway portion of the station was used by 612 passengers daily[3]
Surrounding area
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National Route 113
National Route 287- Okitama Public General Hospital
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "長井線の歴史" [History of the Nagai Line]. flower-liner.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2016年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2016)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ Yamagata Prefectural government statistics
External links
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Media related to Imaizumi Station (Yamagata) at Wikimedia Commons
- JR East Station information (in Japanese)
- Flower Nagai Line (in Japanese)