is a train station in the city of Nagano,

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, operated jointly by

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters ar ...

(JR East), with the third-sector railway operating company

Shinano Railway The is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 1996 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR East Shinetsu Main Line within Nagano Prefecture when it is separated from the JR East network in Octob ...

Lines

Shinanoi Station is one of the intermediate terminals of the discontinuous the

Shin'etsu Main Line The Shinetsu Main Line ( ja, 信越本線, ) 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 . ...

, and is 9.3 kilometers from

Nagano Station is a railway station in the city of Nagano in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The station is operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Nagano Electric Railway (Nagaden). Lines Nagano Station is served by the f ...

. It is also the terminus of the 66.7 kilometer Shinanoi Line. It is also the terminus for the

Shinonoi Line The is a railway line in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Shinonoi Station in Nagano with Shiojiri Station in Shiojiri. The line is a corridor between the Shinetsu Main Line and th ...

and the 65.1 kilometer Shinano Railway Line.

Station layout

The station consists of a one ground-level

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 ...

and one

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. ...

, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a ''

Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...

'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

Shinonoi-STA Gate.jpg, Ticket gate, October 2021 Shinonoi-STA Ticket.jpg, Ticket vending machine, October 2021 JREast-Shinetsu-main-line-Shinonoi-station-platform-20110906-155742.jpg, Platforms, September 2011

History

Shinanoi Station was opened on 15 August 1888. In the 1987 privatization of the

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 pref ...

(JNR), the station was assigned to the control of the

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 19,188 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Shinonoi Post Office * Minami Nagano Sports Park Stadium, home of town football club AC Nagano Parceiro

References

External links

Shinonoi Station
(JR East) {{Shinonoi Line Railway stations in Nagano Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1888 Railway stations in Nagano (city) Shin'etsu Main Line Shinonoi Line Shinano Railway Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company