Kikonai Railway Station
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 View of the train station (March 2016)
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | SH01 |
| opening | October 25, 1930 |
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| City / municipality | Kikonai |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 40 ′ 41 ″ N , 140 ° 26 ′ 3 ″ E |
| Height ( SO ) | 6 m TP |
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The Kikonai Station ( Japanese 木 古 内 駅 , Kikonai-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It is located in Oshima Sub-Prefecture in the Kikonai City area . At the southernmost station of Hokkaidō stop among other things high-speed trains of the Hokkaidō Shinkansen .
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Kikonai is served by three lines:
- The by JR Hokkaido operated Hokkaido Shinkansen runs from Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto by the Seikan tunnel by Shin-Aomori .
- The Kaikyō line beginning here , which also runs through the Seikan tunnel, is reserved for freight transport by JR Freight .
- The Esashi Line runs from Kikonai to Hakodate and is operated by the Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō railway company .
There is a bus terminal on the forecourt . Several bus routes operated by Hakodate Bus operate from here , including an express bus route to Matsumae .
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The separation station, which is located directly at the city center, is oriented from the northeast to the southwest. It has six Cape gauge tracks on three platforms outdoors . However, only three tracks and one side and one central platform serve the scheduled traffic. These are connected to the station concourse by a covered overpass , which is reserved for standard-gauge Shinkansen trains. On the second level of the steel and glass hall there are three tracks and two side platforms (trains go through on the middle track). Over a length of around three and a half kilometers, the Cape and standard gauge tracks run side by side in and around Kikonai until they merge to form three -rail tracks south of the station .
Tracks
| 1 | ▉ Kaikyō line | Hakodate (freight transport) |
| 2 | ▉ Kaikyo line | Aomori (freight transport) |
| 3 | ▉ Kaikyo line | (Siding) |
| 4 • 5 | ▉ Esashi line | Hakodate |
| 11 | ▉ Hokkaidō Shinkansen | Shin-Aomori • Morioka • Sendai • Tokyo |
| 12 | ▉ Hokkaidō Shinkansen | Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto |
history
The Ministry of Railways commissioned the second section of the Esashi Line between Kamiiso and Kikonai on October 25, 1930 . The station was the terminus for six years. On December 10, 1935, the line was extended to Yunotai and finally reached as far as Esashi the following year . The opening of the first section of the branching off in Kikonai Matsumae Line took place on October 12, 1937. This was extended in several stages until it reached Matsumae in 1953 at the southernmost tip of Hokkaidō.
For cost reasons, the Japanese State Railways stopped handling goods in Kikonai on November 15, 1982, and checked baggage on March 14, 1985. 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 . The Matsumae line was shut down on February 1, 1988, but only a few weeks later the importance of the station increased significantly with the opening of the Seikan tunnel and the associated Kaikyō line on March 13. At the same time, the section of the Esashi Line east of Kikonai was electrified . This enabled the introduction of the Hatsukari express trains from Morioka to Hakodate, which also stopped in Kikonai; in addition there were Kaikyō express trains from Aomori to Hakodate.
Construction work on the new station building began on May 29, 2013 after a festive ceremony. Almost a year later, on May 12, 2014, JR Hokkaido shut down the section of the Esashi Line west of Kikonai. After a little more than two years of construction, the new reception building was completed in July 2015. On March 26, 2016, the Hokkaidō Shinkansen was opened. On the same day, JR Hokkaido transferred operations on the Kaikyō line to the freight transport company JR Freight , while it ceded the eastern section of the Esashi line to the newly established regional train company Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō . Passenger traffic through the Seikan tunnel is now only carried out by Shinkansen trains.
Adjacent train stations
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| Okutsugaru-imabetsu |
.svg){kind=logo} Hokkaidō Shinkansen JR Hokkaido |
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Oshima-Tsuruoka (1935-2014) |
 Esashi line Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō |
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Matsumae Line (1937-1988) JR Hokkaido |
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Web links
- JR Hokkaidō Station Information (Japanese)
- Station information of the Dōnan Isaribi Tetsudō (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hokkaidō-Shimbun-Verlag (ed.): さ よ な ら 江 差 線 (Goodbye Esashi line). 2014. pp. 158–159. ISBN 978-4-89453-743-9 .
- ↑ 松 前線 開通 (opening of the Matsumae Line). Hokkaidō Shimbun, November 9, 1953.
- ↑ 北海道 新 幹線 、 木 古 内 駅 安全 祈願 並 び に 立柱式 に つ い て. (PDF) Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency, May 13, 2013, accessed May 25, 2016 (Japanese).