Hirosaki Station
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Hirosaki Station
弘前駅
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| Location | |
| Prefecture | Aomori (See other stations in Aomori) |
| City | Hirosaki |
| Neighborhood etc. | Omotemachi |
| Postal Code | 036-8096 |
| (in Japanese) | 青森県弘前市大字表町1-1 |
| History | |
| Year opened | 1894 |
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| Operator(s) | JR East Kōnan Railway Company |
| Line(s) | Ōu Main Line, Kōnan Railway |
Hirosaki Station (弘前駅 Hirosaki-eki) is a joint railway station on the JR East northern Ōu Main Line and Kōnan Railway located in the city of Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture Japan. It is 447.1 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Ōu Main Line at Fukushima Station. Although the terminus of the Gonō Line is at Kawabe Station, most trains continue on to terminate at Hirosaki for ease of connections.
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[edit] Lines
[edit] Station layout
Hirosaki Station is an elevated station. The JR portion has a single side platform and an island platform, serving three tracks, and the Kōnan Railway has a bay platform serving another two tracks . The station is attended, and has a Green Window service counter. To celebrate Hirosaki City's status as the premier apple producing area of Japan, on one of the platforms is a 2-meter diameter model of an apple.
[edit] Platforms
| JR 1-3 |
■Ōu Main Line | For Ōdate and Akita |
| For Namioka and Aomori | ||
| ■Gonō Line | For Goshogawara and Fukaura | |
| Kōnan 1･2 |
■Kōnan Line | For Hiraka and Kuroishi |
[edit] Limited express trains
[edit] Bus connections
- Kōnan Bus
- For Karekitaira via Dake hot spring
- For Fujishiro via Hamanomashi or Komagoshi
- For Goshogawara Station via Fujisaki, Itayanagi and Tsuruta
- For Namioka via Fujisaki
- For Kuroishi Station via Inakadate
- For Koguriyama via Hirosaki University
- For Sōma via Akudo
- For Tashiro via Kuniyoshi
- For Aomori Airport(Express bus)
[edit] Highway bus
- Jodel (ヨーデル Yōderu) (operated by Kōnan Bus, JR Bus Tōhoku, Iwate-Kenpoku Bus and Iwate-Kenkōtsu)
- For Morioka Station
[edit] History
Hirosaki Station was opened on December 1, 1894 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Ōu Northern Line, the predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR), established in 1909. On September 7, 1927, the Konan Railway also began operations at Hirosaki Station, and the station building was expanded and rebuilt in 1929. The station building was again reconstructed in 1981 to incorporate a shopping center. Scheduled freight operations were discontinued in 1986; however, the Japan Freight Railway Company resumed chartered high speed freight operations with 12-foot containers in 1995. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. A new station building was completed in December 2004.
[edit] Surrounding area
- Hirosaki Post office
- Hirosakiekimae Post office
- Hirosaki Bus terminal
[edit] Adjacent stations
| « | Service | » | ||
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| Ōu Main Line | ||||
| Ishikawa | Local | Naijōshi | ||
| Kōnan Railway Ōwani Line | ||||
| Terminus | Local | Hirosaki-Higashikōmae | ||
[edit] See also
Media related to Hirosaki Station at Wikimedia Commons
[edit] References
- Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7
[edit] External links
- JR East station information page (Japanese)
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Coordinates: 40°35′56.22″N 140°29′6.12″E / 40.59895°N 140.4850333°E
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