Oku-Tama train station

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Oku-Tama ( 奥多摩 )
JREast-Okutama-Station.jpg
Oku-Tama Station (January 2008)
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation JC74
opening July 1, 1944
location
City / municipality Okutama
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 48 '34 "  N , 139 ° 5' 49"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 48 '34 "  N , 139 ° 5' 49"  E
Height ( SO ) 343  m  TP
Railway lines

JR East

Decommissioned:

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The Oku-Tama Station ( Jap. 奥多摩駅 , Oku-Tama-eki ) is a station on the Japanese island of Honshu . It is operated by the JR East railway company and is located in the far west of Tokyo Prefecture in the area of Okutama Municipality , in the middle of the Okutama Mountains.

description

Oku-Tama is the western end point of the Ōme line , which leads from Tachikawa through the upper Tama valley to this point. 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. There is a bus depot for the Nishi Tōkyō Bus company on the station forecourt . From here several lines run to the surrounding villages, to Okutama Lake and to neighboring Yamanashi Prefecture .

The station is in the district of Hikawa, not far from the confluence of the Nippara and the Tama. Structurally, it corresponds to a slightly curved through station , which is oriented from the southeast to the northwest. It has two tracks on a partially covered central platform . A short pedestrian tunnel leads to the two-storey reception building on the south side of the facility. This contains a tourist information office and a café. Most of the time, the trains use the less curved southern track 1, as the distance to the platform on track 2 is sometimes quite large. The northern track once continued to the neighboring cement works of Okutama Kōgyō, and it was also connected to the Ogōchi line of the Tokyo Prefecture's water supply authority .

In the 2014 fiscal year, an average of 934 passengers used the station every day, although this figure is significantly higher on weekends and public holidays.

history

The route of the awame Tetsudō railway company , which began in Tachikawa , reached from 1929 to Mitake station . In June 1937 Okutama Denki Tetsudō was founded, which began to build a connection line to a planned cement plant . However, the lack of material during the Pacific War delayed completion for years. Due to the deteriorating course of the war, the government considered the project to be of particular strategic importance. Based on an ordinance issued in 1941, it nationalized both railway companies on April 1, 1944. The Ministry of Transport and Communication completed the almost completed route and put it into operation exactly three months later. The terminus next to the cement plant was named Hikawa ( 氷川 ).

curved platform
End of track 2, the cement works in the background

In November 1938, the construction of the Ogochi Dam, which was to dam the Okutama Lake , began. But the work had to be stopped in October 1943 and could only be resumed five years later. In order to facilitate the supply of building materials to the remote large construction site in the middle of the Okutama mountainous region, the Tokyo Prefecture's water supply authority built the Ogōchi line . It opened on December 16, 1952. This route, which was connected to the Ōme line, was used exclusively for freight traffic. After around four and a half years, operations ended on May 10, 1957, but the Ogōchi line was never officially shut down. On February 1, 1971, the station was given its current name. As part of the privatization of the state railway, it passed into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 , while JR Freight took over the freight transport. The last freight train ran on August 13, 1998.

Adjacent train stations

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 Lines
→
Shiromaru Ōme line Ōme Line
JR East 		The End
Beginning railroad Ogochi Line (1952–1957)
Tokyo Prefecture Water Authority 		Mizune

Web links

Commons : Oku-Tama 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. ↑ a b Sone Satoru (Ed.): 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 38 . Asahi Shimbun shuppan, Tokyo 2010, p. 9-11 .
  3. ↑ 青梅 ・ 五日 市 線 の 歴 史. JR East , accessed February 25, 2020 (Japanese).