Otaru Railway Station
| Otaru ( 小樽 ) | |
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 View of the train station (August 2012)
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | S15 |
| opening | June 28, 1903 |
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| City / municipality | Otaru |
| prefecture | Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 11 '51 " N , 140 ° 59' 37" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 24 m TP |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Otaru Station ( Jap. 小樽駅 , Otaru-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It is located in Shiribeshi Sub-Prefecture, Otaru City .
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Otaru is a through station on the Hakodate Main Line from Hakodate to Sapporo , Hokkaidō's main railway line. This is operated by the company JR Hokkaido .
Due to its location on the edge of the Sapporo agglomeration, the station is an important operational interface. In almost all cases you have to change here. On the section west of Otaru, regional trains run to Kutchan every one to two hours . The range is significantly denser eastwards in the direction of Sapporo with trains every 10 to 20 minutes on average. In addition to regular regional trains, express trains (Ishikari Liner) run via Sapporo to Iwamizawa . There is also the Airport Liner express train that runs every half hour to New Chitose Airport . The only connection without changing trains in Otaru is the Niseko Liner from Sapporo to Kutchan (one train pair daily).
There is a bus terminal in the forecourt , which is served by numerous bus routes operated by the Hokkaidō Chuō Bus , JR Hokkaido Bus and Niseko Bus companies. There is also a bus stop on the street in front of the train station.
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Otaru is a system interchange station : To the east, the line has been expanded to have two lanes and is electrified with 20 kV 50 Hz alternating voltage . The route to the west is single-track and not electrified. The station on the edge of the city center has twelve tracks, four of which are used for passenger traffic. You are on the house platform , an adjoining tongue platform oriented towards Sapporo and a central platform . The latter is connected to the reception building on the east side of the facility by a pedestrian underpass .
The current station building from 1934 is the first on Hokkaidō to be built from reinforced concrete . It is one of the few modernist train station buildings from the early Shōwa period - alongside Yokohama (1928), Ryōgoku (1929) and Ueno (1932) - that are still in use today, which is why it is one of the Japanese railway monuments.
In the fiscal year 2014, an average of 8,788 passengers per day were counted, making Otaru the seventh most frequented station in JR Hokkaido.
Tracks
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| 1 • 2 • 4 | ▉ Hakodate main line | Teine • Sapporo • Iwamizawa • New Chitose Airport |
| ▉ Hakodate main line | Kutchan • Oshamambe | |
| 5 | ▉ Hakodate main line | Teine • Sapporo • Iwamizawa • New Chitose Airport |
history
The railway company Horonai Tetsudō operated from 1880 a railway line between Sapporo and Otaru. In the urban area of Otaru, it had a route closer to the port compared to today's Hakodate main line. The section between Minami-Otaru and Temiya, known as the Temiya Line , remained in operation until 1985; the Temiya terminus is now used as a railway museum. Since Temiya could not continue to build towards the west, the Hokkaidō Tetsudō built a branch in Minami-Otaru to Ranshima. This was opened on June 28, 1903, together with a new Otaru station, which was initially called Otaru-chūō ( 小樽 中央 ).
The station was given a new name several times: Inaho ( 稲 穂 ) on July 1, 1903, Takeshima ( 高 島 ) on October 15, 1904, Chūō-Otaru ( 中央 小樽 ) on December 15, 1905 and finally Otaru on July 15, 1920. The Cargo handling ceased on October 1, 1964. The section in the direction of Sapporo was double-tracked from August 29, 1965 and was electrified on August 28, 1968. In the course of the privatization of the state railway , the station went into the possession of the new company JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 .
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Web links
- JR Hokkaido Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ JR Hokkaido railway lines in Sapporo area. (PDF, 986 kB) JR Hokkaido, accessed on July 2, 2016 (English).
- ↑ 特集 小樽 駅 の “今 ・ 昔” そ し て こ れ か ら. (PDF, 600 kB) City of Otaru, 2011, accessed on July 2, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ ＪＲ 小樽 駅 本 屋 ・ プ ラ ッ ト ホ ー ム. Zenkin, 2013, accessed July 2, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ 会 社 概要 (company profile). JR Hokkaido, 2015, accessed July 2, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ 旧 国 鉄 手 宮 線 活用 計画 (JNR Temiya Line Usage Plan). (PDF, 14.4 MB) City of Otaru, accessed on July 2, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ 運輸 開始. Japanese Official Gazette, July 2, 1903, accessed July 2, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ Tetsu Ishino (Ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大 辞典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 4-533-02980-9 , pp. 813 (JNR / JR station change directory).