- Namegawa Island Station
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Namegawa Island Station行川アイランド駅
Namegawa Island Station Location Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)City Katsuura Neighborhood etc. Hamanamegawa 606 Postal Code 299 - 5255 (in Japanese) 千葉県勝浦市浜行川606 History Year opened 1970 Rail services Operator(s) JR East Line(s) Sotobō Line Statistics 19 passengers/day (2006) There are no bus services at this station Namegawa Island Station (行川アイランド駅 Namegawa-Airando-eki ) is a railway station operated by JR East's Sotobō Line located in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is 80.5 kilometers from the terminus of the Sotobō Line at Chiba Station.
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History
Namegawa Island Station was opened as a seasonal station on July 2, 1970 to cater to the summer tourist traffic to the nearby Namekawa Island Amusement Park. A number of express trains began stopping at the station from July 18, 1970. The station was upgraded to a year-around station from April 1, 1987, but was made unattended at the same time. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. The station became a kan'i itaku station in 1990. However, with the closure of the Namekawa Island Amusement Park on August 31, 2001, the station was again unattended, and express trains services were discontinued. The station building was remodeled in January 2008.
Lines
Station layout
Namegawa Island Station has one side platforms serving bidirectional traffic.
Platform
1 ■Sotobō Line Awa-Kamogawa, Katsuura, Mobara, Soga, Chiba Adjacent stations
« Service » Sotobō Line Limited Express: no stop Kazusa-Okitsu Local Awa-Kominato Coordinates: 35°07′05″N 140°13′38″E / 35.1181°N 140.2272°E
External links
- (Japanese) JR East Station information
Stations of the Sotobō Line Categories:- Railway stations in Chiba Prefecture
- Railway stations opened in 1970
- Stations of East Japan Railway Company
- Sotobō Line
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