is a railway station in
Iwakuni, Yamaguchi
270px, Kintai Bridge
270px, Iwakuni city center
is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 127,512 in 65182 households and a population density of 157 persons per km2. The total area of the city ...
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Yamaguchi Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 Square kilometre, km2 (2,359 Square mile, sq mi). ...
, Japan. It is operated by the
Nishikigawa Railway, a third-sector railway company.
Lines
Seiryū-Shin-Iwakuni Station is served by the
Nishikigawa Railway Nishikigawa Seiryū Line and is located 3.9 km from the start of the line at .
[ It is linked by a walkway to Shin-Iwakuni Station on the ]Sanyo Shinkansen
is a former Japanese electronics manufacturer founded in 1947 by Toshio Iue, the brother-in-law of Kōnosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial, now known as Panasonic. Iue left Matsushita Electric to start his own busi ...
approximately 300 m from this station.
Adjacent stations
History
Japanese National Railways
The , abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.
Network Railways
As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...
(JNR) opened the station with the name on 1 November 1960 as an intermediate station during the construction of the then from to . With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR West which then ceded control to Nishikigawa Railway on 25 July 1987.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2011, the station was used by an average of 77 passengers daily.
References
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Railway stations in Yamaguchi Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1960