is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

on the

Chūō Main Line The , commonly called the Chūō Line, is one of the major trunk railway lines in Japan. It connects Tokyo and Nagoya, although it is the slowest direct railway connection between the two cities; the coastal Tōkaidō Main Line is slightly faste ...

, Central Japan Railway Company in the city of Shiojiri,

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the n ...

, Japan.

Lines

Seba Station is served by the JR Tōkai

, and is located 226.3 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at and 170.6 kilometers from .

Layout

The station has one ground-level

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

and one

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 ...

connected by a footbridge. The station is unattended.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Seba Station was opened on 1 December 1909. On 1 April 1987, it became part of JR Tōkai.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 56 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

Hiraide ruins The is a complex archaeological site containing the ruins of an early Jōmon period to early Heian period settlement located in the Soga neighborhood of the city of Shiojiri, Nagano in the Chūbu region of Japan. The site was designated a Nation ...

(National Historic Site) * Seba-juku *

References

External links

{{Chūō West Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1909 Railway stations in Nagano Prefecture Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Chūō Main Line Shiojiri, Nagano