Abashiri Railway Station
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 View of the train station (September 2011)
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | A69 |
| opening | October 5, 1912 |
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| City / municipality | Abashiri |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 1 '11 " N , 144 ° 15' 15" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 4 m TP |
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The Abashiri Station ( Jap. 網走駅 , Abashiri-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in Okhotsk Sub-prefecture in the Abashiri City area .
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Abashiri is a through station and former separation station at the transition from the Sekihoku main line to the Senmō main line . The former leads westward via Engaru to Asahikawa , the latter in a south-easterly direction to Higashi-Kushiro .
JR Hokkaido offers four daily express trains called Okhotsk (banned from the Sea of Okhotsk ) for long-distance transport . They connect Abashiri with Asahikawa and the prefecture capital Sapporo , which takes around five and a half hours. In regional traffic on the main Sekihoku line, a regional train runs via Kitami to Engaru approximately every two to three hours . On the Senmō main line, regional trains run four times a day to Kushiro and once a day to Shiretoko-Shari and Midori.
There is a small bus terminal on the station forecourt , which is served by various lines of the Abashiri Bus and Shari Bus companies. The lines to Memanbetsu Airport and the Onsen in Utoro are particularly important .
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The train station is located in the western part of Shinmachi and is oriented from west to east. It has five tracks, three of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on the house platform and on a covered central platform , which is connected to the reception building on the north side of the facility by a covered overpass . From an operational point of view, it is a terminal station accessible from both sides: trains only switch from one line to the other in exceptional cases, as Abashiri is usually always the terminus. Express trains to Sapporo always leave from the house platform. To the south of the train station is a parking facility with a three-track depot .
The reception building and the tracks are located on a raised terrace. A wide staircase and a ramp lead down to the station forecourt. In between there is a statue depicting a whaler with a harpoon.
Tracks
| 1 | ▉ Sekihoku main line | Kitami • Asahikawa • Sapporo |
| ▉ Senmō main line | Midori | |
| 2 • 3 | ▉ Senmō main line | Midori • Kushiro |
| ▉ Sekihoku main line | Kitami • Engaru |
history
The Railway Authority ( later the Railway Ministry ) opened the section between Nokkeushi (now Kitami ) and Abashiri on October 5, 1912 . The terminus was originally about 600 meters further east than today, closer to the city center. On November 15, 1924, an extension to Kitahama was opened. However, this branched off from the older line around half a kilometer west of the terminus . After stopping at Abashiri, trains had to backtrack to the junction before they could continue towards Kitahama. In 1931, the Senmō main line to Higashi-Kushiro was continuously passable, which led to a significant increase in traffic. The terminus was not able to cope with this, which is why the Ministry of Railways built a new through station west of the junction. It went into operation on December 1, 1932, while the old station on the branch line was used for freight traffic until 1969 under the name Hama-Abashiri ( 浜 網 走 ).
On October 10, 1935, the Ministry of Railways opened the first section of the Yūmō line from Abashiri to Ubaranai; It took another 18 years to complete the entire route to Naka-Yūbetsu. In 1977 the Japanese State Railways replaced the previous station building with a new building. On November 1, 1986, it stopped the handling of goods and the baggage check. On March 20, 1987, she put the entire Yūmō line down. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the possession of the new company JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 .
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Web links
- JR Hokkaido Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shinbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 104-105 .
- ↑ Satoru Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 28 . Asahi Shimbunsha, Osaka 2010, p. 14-15 .
- ↑ Keisuke Imao: 日本 鉄 道 旅行 地 図 帳 (Japan Rail Travel Atlas ) . tape 1 Hokkaidō. Shinchosha, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 978-4-10-790019-7 , pp. 49 .