Utsunomiya train station

Utsunomiya train station
Utsunomiya Station (JR Platform)
Data
abbreviation	ミ ヤ ( MI-YA )
opening	July 16, 1885
location
City / municipality	Utsunomiya
prefecture	Tochigi
Country	Japan
Coordinates	36 ° 33 '31 "  N , 139 ° 53' 54"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 33 '31 "  N , 139 ° 53' 54"  E
Railway lines
JR Tōhoku Shinkansen Main Tōhoku Line (Utsunomiya Line) Nikko line
List of train stations in Japan

The Utsunomiya Station ( Jap. 宇都宮駅 , Utsunomiya-eki ) is located in Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture . The station is an important railway junction .

Lines

Utsunomiya is served by the following lines:

• JR East Tōhoku Shinkansen
• JR East Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line)
• JR East Nikko Line

The Utsunomiya light rail will run from 2022 .

use

In 2006, an average of 35,773 people used the JR lines at this station every day.

history

On July 16, 1885, the station was opened by the first private railway company in Japan, the Nippon Tetsudō . The year it opened, the first Ekiben , travel provisions sold in a box, was also sold in Japan. This then quickly spread across the country.

Adjacent train stations

←	Lines			→
Oyama		Tōhoku Shinkansen JR East		Nasushiobara
Suzumenomiya		Utsunomiya JR East		Okamoto
Beginning		JR East Nikko Line		Tsuruta

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Free, Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan, Tuttle Publishing, 2008 ( ISBN 4805310065 )

Web links

Commons : Utsunomiya station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official JR homepage for the train station