is a passenger

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located in the city of

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Kagawa Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Pr ...

, Japan. It is operated by

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and has the station number "Y03".

Lines

The station is served by the JR Shikoku

Yosan Line The is the principal railway line on the island of Shikoku in Japan, connecting the major cities of Shikoku, and via the Honshi-Bisan Line, with Honshu. It is operated by the Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku), and is aligned approximately p ...

and is located 9.5 km from the beginning of the line at

. Yosan line local, ''Rapid Sunport'', and ''Nanpū Relay'' services stop at the station. The

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rapid service on the Seto-Ohashi Line between and also stop at the station. Although is the official start of the

Dosan Line The is a railway line in Shikoku, Japan, operated by the Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku). It connects Tadotsu Station in Tadotsu, Kagawa, Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa, and Kubokawa Station in Shimanto, Kōchi (town), Shimanto, Kōchi ...

, some of its local trains start from and return to . These trains also stop at Hashioka.

Layout

Hashioka Station consists of a

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and two staggered

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s serving four tracks. The side platform, attached to the station building is designated

platform 0 Platform 0 is a railway platform, platform number at various railway stations around the world. It is usually a result of constructing a new platform next to the existing platform 1. To avoid having to renumber and replace signage (or excessive re ...

. Track 1 is served by both platform 0 and platform 1 (island) and trains stopping there occasionally open their doors on both sides to allow passengers to quickly get from the island platform to the station building. Platforms 1 and 2 serve eastbound trains while platforms 3 and 4 serve westbound ones. A station building houses a waiting room and a JR ticket window (without a ''Midori no Madoguchi'' facility). Access to the island platforms is by means of two footbridges, one for each island. Two sidings branch of off the main tracks on either side.

Adjacent stations

History

Hashioka Station opened on 21 February 1897 as an intermediate stop when the track of the privately Sanuki Railway (later the Sanyo Railway) was extended from to . After the railway as nationalized on 1 December 1906,

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national rail transport, railway system directly operated by the until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Railways Group. Name The English name "Japanese ...

(JGR) took over the station and operated it as part of the Sanuki Line (later the Sanyo and then the Yosan Main Line). With the privatization of

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, the successor of JGR) on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.

Surrounding area

*Takamatsu City Hall Kokubunji General Center *Takamatsu City Kokubunji Junior High School *Takamatsu Municipal Kokubunji Northern Elementary School

References

External links

Station timetable
Railway stations in Takamatsu Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897 {{Kagawa-railstation-stub