Mashike train station

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Mashike ( 増 毛 )
View of the train station (July 2015)
View of the train station (July 2015)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Platform tracks 1
opening November 5, 1921
Conveyance 5th December 2016
location
City / municipality Mashike
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 43 ° 51 '25 "  N , 141 ° 31' 39"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 51 '25 "  N , 141 ° 31' 39"  E
Height ( SO ) 8  m  TP
Railway lines

Decommissioned:

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The Mashike Station ( Japanese 毛 駅 , Mashike-eki ) is a former train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was located in the Rumoi sub-prefecture on the territory of the Mashike city and was operational from 1921 to 2016.

description

Aerial view (1977)
The station in 1921

Mashike was the western terminus of the 66.8 km long Rumoi main line , which ran from Fukagawa via Rumoi here. The terminal station was in the central harbor area Minatomachi close to the pier and was directed from south to north. Finally, he still had a track for passenger traffic, with the wooden reception building on the west side of the facility. On the east side there were once two tracks and loading ramps for freight traffic, and a small depot south of the facility .

history

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, there was a need to connect the new Karafuto Prefecture (the southern half of Sakhalin Island ) with the rest of the country. This also required the expansion and construction of ports on Hokkaidō. The Rumoi main line established a rail connection to the port of Rumoi from 1910 onwards , but its completion was delayed due to various problems until the end of the 1920s. For this reason, the government decided to build an alternate port in Mashike . As a temporary solution, a horse-drawn bus ran between the two places .

On November 5, 1921, the Ministry of Railways extended the Rumoi Main Line by 16.7 km from Rumoi Station to Mashike. For cost reasons, the Japanese State Railways stopped handling goods on October 2, 1978, and checked baggage on February 1, 1984. As a result, the station was no longer manned. As part of the privatization of the state railway, it passed on April 1, 1987 into the possession of the new company JR Hokkaido . On December 5, 2016, the Rumoi – Mashike section was closed and replaced by a bus line.

In 1981, Mashike Station was the setting for the film Eki Station by Yasuo Furuhata , which won the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Picture a year later . As a result, the station gained fame throughout Japan. In 2017 it was renovated because it is to be retained as a tourist attraction.

Web links

Commons : Mashike Train Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ railway administration Hokkaido (ed.):北海道鉄道沿線案内, Sapporo 1918th
  2. ↑ Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shimbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 138-139 .
  3. ↑ Satoru Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 20 . Asahi Shimbunsha, Osaka 2009, p. 20-23 .
  4. ↑ Yasuhito Watanabe: Last train leaves Ken Takakura's 'Station' in Hokkaido. Asahi Shimbun , December 5, 2016, accessed November 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Hokkaido town to restore 'Ken-san' station for tourists. Yomiuri Shimbun , January 12, 2017, accessed November 19, 2017 .