Obihiro train station

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Obihiro ( 帯 広 )
131012 Obihiro Station Hokkaido Japan02s3.jpg
View of the train station (October 2013)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation K31
opening October 21, 1905
location
City / municipality Obihiro
prefecture Hokkaidō
Country Japan
Coordinates 42 ° 55 '5 "  N , 143 ° 12' 7"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 55 '5 "  N , 143 ° 12' 7"  E
Height ( SO ) 42  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Hokkaido

Decommissioned:

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The Obihiro Station ( Jap. 帯広駅 , Obihiro-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in Tokachi Sub-Prefecture, Obihiro City .

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Obihiro is a through station and former junction station on the Nemuro main line . This leads from Takikawa via Kushiro to Nemuro and is operated by the company JR Hokkaido .

Express trains called Super Ōzora run six times a day from Sapporo via Obihiro to Kushiro and back. In addition, Obihiro is the terminus of the Super Tokachi, which runs five times a day from Sapporo . From Obihiro, regional trains run to Shintoku and Kushiro every hour or two .

In front of the north exit there is a bus station with 14 stops, which is served by the companies Tokachi Bus and Hokkaidō Takushoku Bus .

investment

The station, oriented from northwest to southeast, is located on a wide viaduct . This has four tracks, which are located on two covered central platforms . The three-storey reception building made of reinforced concrete elements is an integral part of the viaduct structure. In addition to the Esta Obihiro shopping center, it also includes an art gallery.

Tracks

1 ▉  Nemuro main line Ikeda • Kushiro
2 ▉  Nemuro main line Sapporo • Takikawa
▉  Nemuro main line Ikeda • Kushiro
3 ▉  Nemuro main line Shintoku • Sapporo • Takikawa
▉  Nemuro main line Ikeda • Kushiro
4th ▉  Nemuro main line Shintoku • Sapporo • Takikawa • Asahikawa
▉  Nemuro main line Ikeda • Kushiro

history

Access to the platforms (October 2013)
Aerial view (1978)

From the late 1890s, the state railway company Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō built a line that was to connect Sapporo with the east of the island. From Asahikawa and Kushiro , it put several sections into operation in stages. The railway office responsible from 1905 (later the Ministry of Railways ) opened the section from Toshibetsu to Obihiro on December 1 of the same year. The station built here was the terminus for almost two years. With the opening of the last missing section between Ochiai and Obihiro on September 8, 1907, the project was completed.

Tokachi Tetsudō , a subsidiary of the sugar processing company Nippon Tensai Seitō, opened a 500 m long branch line to a sugar factory on September 10, 1920. This was followed from 1924 by a light rail network over 60 km long with a gauge of 762 mm, which was mainly used to deliver sugar beets grown in the region , but was also used for passenger transport. The Ministry of Railways opened the first section of the Shihoro Line from Obihiro to Shihoro on December 10, 1925 . On November 2, 1929, the opening of the first section of the Hiroo line from Obihiro to Nakasatsunai followed , three years later the line to Hiroo was completed.

In 1940 the route network of the Tokachi Tetsudō began to shrink gradually until on November 15, 1959, only the section between the sugar factory and Obihiro station remained. After several years of construction, on December 1, 1966 , the Japanese State Railways commissioned a new three-storey reinforced concrete station building with a shop and hotel; six years later, the hotel section was given an additional floor. On March 1, 1977, the Tokachi Tetsudō closed the last remaining section of the route to the sugar factory. For cost reasons, the state railway stopped checking in luggage on November 1, 1986. It shut down the Hiroo Line on February 1, 1987, and the Shihoro Line on March 22 of the same year.

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 . They relocated the main Nemuro line, which was previously at ground level in the city, on a viaduct and converted the station. The work was completed in November 1996. The elevation of the route made it possible to build the Esta Obihiro shopping center . Its operating company had to file for bankruptcy in November 1998, after which the shops were vacant for over two years. It reopened in June 2001 after JR Hokkaido had taken over management himself.

Adjacent train stations

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→
Hakurindai Nemuro line Nemuro Main Line
JR Hokkaido 		Satsunai
Beginning Regional Shihoro Line (1925–1987)
Japanese State Railways 		movie theater
Beginning Regional Hiroo Line (1929–1987)
Japanese State Railways 		Yoda

Web links

Commons : Obihiro Train Station  - Collection of images, 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 Shimbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 312-313 .
  2. ↑ Keisuke Imao: 日本 鉄 道 旅行 地 図 帳 (Japan Rail Travel Atlas ) . tape 1 Hokkaidō. Shinchosha, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 978-4-10-790019-7 .
  3. ↑ 自己 破産 申請 へ 帯 広 ス テ ー シ ョ ン ビ ル 、 負債 4 億 2000 万 円 甘 か っ た 経 営 計画 3 セ ク の 弱点 露 呈. Mainichi Tokachi, November 17, 1998.
  4. ↑ “エ ス タ“ 再生 ”オ ー プ ン JR 帯 広 駅 東 館 に 官 民 施 設 物産 セ ン タ ー な ど 人 気. Mainichi Tokachi, June 1, 2001.