is a railway station in the city of Nagano,

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Lines

Imai Station is served by the

Shin'etsu Main Line The is a railway line, consisting of three geographically separated sections, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan. It was originally one continuous line connecting and via . Since the opening and later extension of ...

and is 2.1 kilometers from the terminus of the line at

Shinonoi Station is a train station in the city of Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated jointly by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), with the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway. Lines Shinanoi Station is one of the intermediate te ...

. Shinanoi Line and Shinano Railway trains also stop at this station after continuing past the nominal terminus of these lines at Shinanoi en route to .

Station layout

The station consists of two opposed elevated

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, with the station building underneath. 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

History

Imai Station opened on 1 October 1997.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 1,966 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

References

External links

JR East station information
{{Shinonoi Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Japan opened in 1997 Railway stations in Nagano (city) Shin'etsu Main Line Shinonoi Line Shinano Railway Line