Kōriyama Station
| Kōriyama Station | |
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 Kōriyama Station (JR Platform)
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| Location in the network | Junction station |
| Platform tracks | 9 |
| abbreviation | コ リ ( KO-RI ) |
| opening | July 16, 1887 |
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| City / municipality | Kōriyama |
| prefecture | Fukushima |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 23 '53 " N , 140 ° 23' 18" E |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Kōriyama ( Japanese 郡山 駅 Kōriyama-eki ) station is located in Kōriyama in Fukushima Prefecture . As a stop of the Tōhoku / Yamagata Shinkansen and connection point of the Ban'etsu west and east line to the Tōhoku main line , the station is an important railway junction . The trains of the Suigun Line , which branches off a few kilometers south of the Tōhoku main line, also begin and end in Kōriyama.
history
On 16th July 1887 the station of the first private railway company in Japan, which was Nippon Railway , the railway terminus and preliminary endpoint of the segment of Ueno opened in Tokyo to the north. In the same year he was the enlargement to Sendai / Shiogama for transit station . In 1898, the also private Gan'etsu Tetsudō opened the first section of today's Ban'etsu west line from Kōriyama to Nakayamajuku. In 1906 the station was nationalized with the two companies. In 1915 the first section of the Heigun West Line was opened, which since 1917 has formed the Ban'etsu East Line together with the Heigun East Line.
In the late 1960s Nihon Sekiyu (English Nippon Oil ) set up an oil terminal in Kōriyama. In 1982 the Tōhoku Shinkansen was completed, the platforms for the standard-gauge high-speed line were created west of the existing station. When the state railway was privatized and divided in 1987, the station fell to the JR Higashi-Nihon ( JR East ) and the JR Kamotsu ( JR Freight ).
In 1998 the platform barriers for the Shinkansen were automated, and in 2005 a new shopping arcade was opened within the platform barriers.
Type of construction and tracks
The Kōriyama station has the shape of a through station : four continuous tracks are accessible from two island platforms, there is also a short head track in the south. Another track is to the west of it on a side platform. The Shinkansen stop directly to the west is in the form of a through station in an elevated position. On an island platform, continuous trains stop on two tracks, a third track for beginning / ending trains is on a side platform.
| 1/2 | ▉ Ban'etsu West Line | Bandai-Atami • Inawashiro • Aizu-Wakamatsu • Kitakata |
| ▉ Main Tōhoku line | Sukagawa • Shirakawa • Kuroiso | |
| ▉ Main Tōhoku line | Nihommatsu • Fukushima • Sendai | |
| 3 | ▉ Suigun lineage | Iwaki-Ishikawa • Hitachi-Daigo • Mito |
| 4/5 | ▉ Main Tōhoku line | Sukagawa • Shirakawa • Kuroiso |
| ▉ Main Tōhoku line | Nihommatsu • Fukushima • Sendai | |
| 6th | ▉ Ban'etsu East Line | Miharu • Funehiki • Ono-Niimachi • Iwaki |
| 11 | ▉ Tōhoku Shinkansen | |
| 12 | ▉ Tōhoku Shinkansen | Fukushima • Sendai • Morioka |
| ▉ Yamagata Shinkansen | Yonezawa • Yamagata • Shinjō | |
| 13 | ▉ Tōhoku Shinkansen | Utsunomiya • Ōmiya • Tokyo |
Plant and freight transport
South of the station located between Tohoku main line and -Shinkansen deposits both railways, the "general wagon center Kōriyama" JR Higashi-Nihon ( 郡山総合車両センター, Kōriyama Sogo Sharyo presentation ) and the "Depot Kōriyama" ( 郡山車両所 , Kōriyama sharyō-jo ) of JR Kamotsu.
About three kilometers south of the Tōhoku main line is also the "Kōriyama Freight Terminal Station" ( 郡山 貨物 タ ー ミ ナ ル 駅 , Kōriyama-kamotsu-tāminaru-eki ).
Lines and neighboring stations
The Yamabiko / Tsubasa of the Tōhoku / Yamagata Shinkansen stop in Kōriyama , the Nasuno from Tokyo ends here. In the timetable valid since 2009, four pairs of trains per hour go to Kōriyama, the Hayate / Komachi (Tōhoku / Akita Shinkansen ) pass the station.
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Shin-Shirakawa Utsunomiya (Tsubasa) |
.svg){kind=logo} Tōhoku / Yamagata-Shinkansen JR East |
Fukushima end (Nasuno) |
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| Asaka-Nagamori |
JR East Tōhoku Main Line |
Hiwada | ||
| Mogi |
Ban'etsu East Line, JR East |
The End | ||
| Beginning |
Ban'etsu West Line, JR East |
Kikuta | ||
use
In 2006, an average of 18,380 people used the JR lines at this station every day.
