Mitake Railway Station (Tokyo)

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Mitake ( 御 嶽 )
Mitake Station JR - panoramio.jpg
Mitake Station (January 2008)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation JC69
opening September 1, 1929
location
City / municipality Ōme
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 48 '5 "  N , 139 ° 10' 58"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 48 '5 "  N , 139 ° 10' 58"  E
Height ( SO ) 241  m  TP
Railway lines

JR East

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The Mitake Station ( Jap. 御嶽駅 , Mitake-eki ) is a station on the Japanese island of Honshu . It is operated by the JR East railway company and is located in the west of Tokyo Prefecture in the area of ​​the city of Ōme , in the middle of the Okutama Mountains.

description

Mitake is a through station on the Ōme Line , which runs from Tachikawa through the upper Tama Valley to Oku-Tama . Local trains run every 30 to 45 minutes Monday through Friday. On weekends and public holidays, the offer is supplemented by three pairs of express trains called Holiday Rapid Okutama , which run from Shinjuku or Tokyo to Oku-Tama and back. The bus stop in front of the train station is served by two Nishi Tōkyō Bus lines. One of them goes to the funicular valley station of Mitake Tozan Tetsudō in the nearby town of Takimoto.

The station is in the Mitakehonchō district near the left bank of the Tama . The facility is oriented from east to west and has three tracks, two of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on a partly covered central platform , of a pedestrian tunnel with the reception building is connected to the south side. A tourist information center is located in the building in accordance with its high tourist importance . There are several attractions nearby, including the Museum of the Painter Kawai Gyokudō , the Mitake Art Museum and the Musashi Mitake Shrine.

In the 2014 fiscal year, an average of 683 passengers used the station every day, although this figure is significantly higher on weekends and public holidays.

Tracks

1 ▉  Ōme line Oku-tama
2 ▉  Ōme line Ōme • Tachikawa • Shinjuku • Tokyo

history

Counter hall
platform

The railway company Ōme Denki Tetsudō extended the Ōme line on September 1, 1929 from Futamatao to this point. Mitake was the western terminus for around 15 years. During the Pacific War , the Japanese state strove to bring under its control various private railways of strategic importance that had emerged after the first wave of nationalization in 1906/07 . According to an ordinance issued in 1941, the Ōme Denki Tetsudō , among other things, was affected and became state property on April 1, 1944. Another railway company, Okutama Denki Tetsudō ( 奥多摩 電 気 鉄 道 ), founded in June 1937 , was nationalized on the same day. They had started to build a connecting line from Mitake to Oku-Tama . The Ministry of Railways completed it and put it into operation on July 1, 1944.

For reasons of rationalization, the Japanese State Railways stopped handling goods in November 1958. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 . The stretch west of Ōme is marketed as the Tokyo Adventure Line . In order to make better use of the potential, the reception building was comprehensively renovated in stages by 2019 and consistently geared to the needs of tourists.

Adjacent train stations

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Sawai Ōme line Ōme Line
JR East 		Kawai

Web links

Commons : Mitake Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 各 駅 の 乗車 人員. JR East , 2018, accessed February 25, 2020 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Satoru Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 38 . Asahi Shimbunsha, Osaka 2010, p. 10-11 .
  3. ↑ 青梅 線 御 嶽 駅 リ ニ ュ ー ア ル オ ー プ ン に つ い て. (PDF, 250 kB) JR East , February 15, 2019, archived from the original on February 18, 2019 ; Retrieved February 25, 2020 (Japanese).