Mizuhashi Station (水橋駅, Mizuhashi-eki) is a railway station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line in the city of Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Ainokaze Toyama Railway.
Mizuhashi Station 水橋駅 | |||||
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 Mizuhashi Station in September 2009 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | 676-2 Mizuhashi Iseya, Toyama-shi, Toyama-ken 939-3524 Japan | ||||
| Coordinates | 36°44′37″N 137°17′54″E / 36.7435°N 137.2982°E | ||||
| Operated by |  Ainokaze Toyama Railway | ||||
| Line(s) | ■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line | ||||
| Distance | 53.1 km from Kurikara | ||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Staffed | ||||
| Website | Official website | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 16 November 1908 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| FY2015 | 965 daily | ||||
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Lines
editMizuhashi Station is served by the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line and is 53.1 kilometres from the starting point of the line at Kurikara.
Station layout
editMizuhashi Station has two opposed ground-level side platforms connected by a footbridge. The station is staffed.
Platforms
edit| 1 | ■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line | for Uozu and Itoigawa |
| 2 | ■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line | for Toyama and Kanazawa |
History
editMizuhashi Station opened on 16 November 1908 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), later becoming the Japanese National Railways (JNR). It was privatized on 1 April 1987, becoming a station on JR West.
From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the former Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.[1] From this date, Mizuhashi Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Ainokaze Toyama Railway.
Adjacent stations
edit| « | Service | » | ||
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| Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line | ||||
| Higashi-Toyama | Local | Namerikawa | ||
Passenger statistics
editIn fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 965 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]
Surrounding area
edit- Mizuhashi Post Office
- Mizuhashi High School
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ しなの鉄道（株）、えちごトキめき鉄道（株）、あいの風とやま鉄道（株）及びＩＲいしかわ鉄道（株）申請の第一種鉄道事業許可について [Details of railway business approval for Shinano Railway, Echigo Tokimeki Railway Company, Ainokaze Toyama Railway, and IR Ishikawa Railway]. News release (in Japanese). Japan: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ 10-1 あいの風とやま鉄道各駅旅客輸送状況（1日平均）） (in Japanese). Japan: Toyama Prefectural Office. 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
External links
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- Official website (in Japanese)