Hakodate Railway Station
| Hakodate ( 函館 ) | |
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 View of the train station (July 2012)
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| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | H75 |
| opening | December 10, 1902 |
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| City / municipality | Hakodate |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 46 '27 " N , 140 ° 43' 33" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 2 m TP |
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Hakodate-shi Kōtsūkyoku |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Hakodate Station ( Jap. 函館駅 , Hakodate-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in Oshima Sub-Prefecture, Hakodate City .
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Hakodate is located at the southern end of the Hakodate Main Line operated by JR Hokkaido , the most important railway line in Hokkaidō. In addition to regional trains with stops at all stations, the Hokuto and Super Hokuto tilting express trains to Sapporo and the Hakodate Liner express train , which connects to the high-speed trains of the Hokkaidō Shinkansen in Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto , run from here . From Hakodate there are also regional trains of the Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō railway company , which turn onto the Esashi line to Kikonai in the subsequent Goryōkaku station .
There is a bus terminal on the forecourt . Both lines of the Hakodate tram stop at the nearest street crossing (approx. 100 m away) .
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Hakodate is a terminus station in a south-north direction with four slightly curved platforms and eight tracks. These are connected by a cross platform, at the eastern end of which is the two-storey reception building with a few shops and restaurants. The current station building is the fifth at this location. It was planned in cooperation with the Danish State Railways and opened in June 2003 after a two-year construction period.
Tracks
| 1-4 | ▉ Hakodate main line | Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto • Mori • Oshamambe (regional trains) |
| ▉ Esashi line | Kikonai | |
| 5 • 6 | ▉ Hakodate main line | Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto (Hakodate Liner) |
| 7 • 8 | ▉ Hakodate main line | Mori • Oshamambe • Sapporo (express trains) |
history
The railway company Hokkaidō Tetsudō opened the station on December 10, 1902, along with the southernmost section of the Hakodate main line . After the nationalization on July 1, 1907, the Railway Office (later the Railway Ministry ) was responsible. On March 7, 1908, the Seikan ferry to Aomori started operating, the pier of which was not far from the train station. In view of the state competition, the shipping company Nippon Yūsen set its own ferry service two years later. The Hakodate-sanbashi ( 函館 桟 橋 ) stop , which was in operation until 1968 , was created in June 1915 to improve the transfer relationships between ferry and railroad . The ferry traffic was recorded on 1 August 1925 after conversions allowed at the pier the loading of railroad cars on the ferries.
The station building burned down on May 4, 1913, the new building was also destroyed by fire on January 18, 1938. Due to the war-related shortage of materials, the reconstruction took until December 1942, which is why all trains ran through to the pier stop during this time. Since December 27, 1942, the section between Hakodate and Goryōkaku has been double-tracked. On October 1, 1980, the Japanese State Railways stopped loading containers , and on November 1, 1986 also checked baggage. As part of the state railroad privatization on April 1, 1987, the station became the property of the new company JR Hokkaido.
The opening of the Seikan tunnel on March 13, 1988 brought about significant changes. The section to Goryōkaku and the subsequent Esashi line had been electrified , so that direct express and night trains could now run to Tokyo . The following day, JR Hokkaido stopped the ferry service, and later sold the ferry service. A tsunami triggered by the Tōhoku earthquake flooded the station area on March 11, 2011. Since the opening of the Hokkaidō-Shinkansen high-speed line on March 26, 2016, no more trains run from Hakodate to the main island of Honshū ; passenger traffic there is handled via the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto station .
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View into the station concourse
Sculpture in front of the main entrance
Platforms
Hakodate liner
Tram stop
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Adjacent train stations
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Hakodate-sanbashi (1915–1968) |
.svg){kind=logo} Hakodate Main Line JR Hokkaido |
Goryōkaku | ||
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 Esashi line Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō |
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 Tram Hakodate Hakodate-shi Kōtsūkyoku |
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Web links
- JR Hokkaido Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Takashi Nagano: 10 Years of Joint Projects by JR Hokkaido and Danish State Railways. (PDF, 730 kB) In: Japan Railway & Transport Review 24th East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, July 2000, accessed on June 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ 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. 26 .
- ↑ a b c JR Hokkaido, Hakodate branch (ed.): 道 南 鉄 道 100 年 史 (100-year history of the southern railway). Hakodate, 2004.
- ↑ 函館 駅 の 地震 の 影響 に つ い て (About the effects of the earthquake on Hakodate station). (No longer available online.) Jr.hakodate.jp, March 16, 2011, archived from the original on June 27, 2016 ; Retrieved June 28, 2016 (Japanese).