250px, East Entrance
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is a passenger
railway station
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located in the city of
Ibaraki,
Osaka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...
,
Japan
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. It is operated by the
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, ...
(JR West).
Lines
Ibaraki Station is served by the
JR Kyōto Line (
Tōkaidō Main Line
The Tōkaidō Main Line () is one of the most important railway corridors in Japan, connecting the major cities of Tokyo and Kobe via Shizuoka (city), Shizuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka. The line, with termini at Tokyo Station, Tokyo and Kōbe St ...
), and is 28.2 kilometers from the starting point of the line at and 541.8 kilometers from the
terminus at .
Start Layout
The station has two
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, connected by an elevated station building. The station has a ''
Midori no Madoguchi
, short for ''Magnetic-electronic Automatic'' ''Reservation System,'' is a train ticket reservation system used by the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and travel agencies in Japan. It was developed jointly by Hitachi and the former Ja ...
'' staffed ticket office.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Ibaraki Station opened on 9 August 1876.
Station numbering was introduced to the station in March 2018 with Ibaraki being assigned station number JR-A41.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 48,243 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
* Ibaraki City Kasugaoka Elementary School
* Ibaraki Municipal Hozumi Elementary School
*Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus (Building B and Iwakura Park)
*Ibaraki City Hall
*Ibaraki Municipal Yosei Junior High School
*Ibaraki Shrinel
See also
*
List of railway stations in Japan
*
Ibaraki-shi Station (another major station in Ibaraki on the
Hankyu Kyoto Main Line
The is a railway line in Japan operated by the private railway operator Hankyu Railway. It connects Osaka-umeda Station in Osaka and Kyoto-kawaramachi Station in Kyoto.
Definition
The Kyoto Main Line is often called the for short, and in ...
)
References
External links
JR West official home page
Ibaraki, Osaka
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1876
Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Tōkaidō Main Line
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