is a railway station on the
Hokuriku Main Line in the city of
Awara, Fukui, Japan, operated by
West Japan Railway Company
, also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...
(JR West).
Lines
Awaraonsen Station is served by the
Hokuriku Main Line and is located 117.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at . It is also scheduled to become a station on the high-speed
Hokuriku Shinkansen line when the extension west of opens around 2025.
Station layout
The station has two
island platform
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular o ...
s with four tracks connected by a footbridge. It has a "
Midori no Madoguchi
, which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Gro ...
" staffed ticket office.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 20 September 1897 as .
It was renamed Awaraonsen Station on 15 March 1972.
With the
privatization
Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...
of
JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,822 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
*Awara City Hall
See also
*
List of railway stations in Japan
The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan.
External links
{{Portal bar, Japan, Trains
*
Railway stations
Japan
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References
External links
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{{Hokuriku Shinkansen
Stations of West Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Fukui Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897
Hokuriku Main Line
Awara, Fukui