is a passenger

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located in the city of

Matsuyama 270px, Matsuyama City Hall 270px, Ehime Prefectural Capital Building is the capital city of Ehime Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, in Japan and is also Shikoku's largest city. , the city had an estimated population of 505,948 in 243,541 h ...

Ehime Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Ehime Prefecture has a population of 1,334,841 and a geographic area of 5,676 km2 (2,191 sq mi). Ehime Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the northeast, Toku ...

, Japan. It is operated by

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and has the station number "Y52".

Lines

Horie Station is served by the JR Shikoku Yosan Line and is located 184.9 km from the beginning of the line at . Only Yosan Line local trains stop at the station and they only serve the sector between and . Connections with other local or limited express trains are needed to travel further east or west along the line.

Layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of two opposed

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, ...

s serving two tracks. A disused freight car has been set up next to the tracks and converted into a waiting room in the same style as at . Access to the opposite platform is by means of a footbridge. A siding branches off line 1 and leads to the traces of a disused freight platform.

Adjacent stations

History

Horie Station opened on 3 April 1927 as an intermediate stop when the then Sanyo Line was extended from to . At that time the station was operated by Japanese Government Railways, later becoming

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(JNR). With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.

Surrounding area

*Horie Sea Station Umiterasu (former Horie Port) *Horie Beach *Matsuyama Municipal Horie Elementary School

References

External links

Station timetable
{{Yosan Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1927 Railway stations in Matsuyama, Ehime