Kamikawa Railway Station

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Kamikawa ( 上 川 )
View of the train station (July 2009)
View of the train station (July 2009)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation A43
opening November 15, 1923
location
City / municipality Kamikawa
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 50 '56 "  N , 142 ° 46' 0"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 50 '56 "  N , 142 ° 46' 0"  E
Height ( SO ) 339  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

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The Kamikawa Station ( Jap. 上川駅 , Kamikawa-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in the sub-prefecture Kamikawa in the field of city Kamikawa .

description

Kamikawa is a through station and former connecting station on the main Sekihoku line . This leads from Asahikawa via Kitami to Abashiri and is operated by the company JR Hokkaido . All trains running here stop at this station. In long-distance four connecting daily Okhotsk - Express couples the prefecture capital of Sapporo with Asahikawa and Abashiri. There is also the Kitami express train from Asahikawa to Kitami and back once a day . In local transport there is a regional train to Asahikawa every one to two hours , while the section leading through the Kitami Mountains to Engaru is only used by one regional train a day.

In addition to the reception building there is a bus company Dohoku bus . It operates long-distance bus routes to Asahikawa , Kitami , Kushiro , Mombetsu and Obihiro . The bus route to the Sōunkyō Gorge in the Daisetsuzan National Park is of great importance for tourism .

The train station is close to the city center and faces north-west to south-east. It has five tracks, three of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on the main platform and on a partially covered central platform , which is connected to the reception building on the northeast side of the facility by a covered overpass . Express and express trains usually stop at the house platform. To the north-west of the train station there is a small double-track depot for parking train service vehicles .

history

Aerial view (1977)

The Ministry of Railways opened the station on November 15, 1923, along with the Aibetsu – Kamikawa section of the Sekihokusai Line (石 北 西 線, Sekihokusai-sen ). This was the end of the line for six years, as the construction of the mountain railway that followed took a long time. On November 20, 1929, the section from Kamikawa to Nakakoshi west of the Kitami Pass was opened. Three years later, the line including the Ishikata Tunnel was completed and the Sekihokusai Line merged with the Sekihoku Line (known as the Sekihoku Main Line since 1961).

In 1947, the Asahikawa Forestry Department opened the Sōunkyō Forest Railway . It began at Kamikawa Station, was 19 km long and had a gauge of 762 mm, but was shut down after only four years of operation. In 1961 the Japanese State Railways replaced the previous station building with a new building, and in 1968 they set up a container loading point . For cost reasons, the State Railroad stopped checking in luggage and handling goods on February 1, 1984. 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 . This renewed the station building in 2008.

Adjacent train stations

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Tōun Sekihoku line Sekihoku Main Line
JR Hokkaido 		Shirataki

Web links

Commons : Kamikawa Station  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 100-101 .
  2. ↑ Noriyuki Natori: 薄命 の 層雲 峡 森林 鉄 道 . rail.hobidas.com, March 24, 2007, accessed April 9, 2017 (Japanese).