Ichiburi Station

Location
	Ichiburi Station Location within Japan

Ichiburi Station

市振駅
Ichiburi Station; 市振駅
	Ichiburi Station, September 2011
General information
Location	913 Ichiburi, Itoigawa-shi, Niigata; (新潟県糸魚川市大字市振913); Japan
Operated by	Ainokaze Toyama Railway; Echigo Tokimeki Railway;
Line(s)	■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line; ■ Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line;
Platforms	1 island platform
History
Opened	15 October 1912
Passengers
FY2015	56
Location
Location
	Ichiburi Station Location within Japan

Ichiburi Station (市振駅, Ichiburi-eki) is a railway station in Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operating companies Ainokaze Toyama Railway and Echigo Tokimeki Railway (ETR).

Lines

Ichiburi Station forms the boundary station for the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line to the west and Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line to the east. Although it is the nominal terminal station for the Echigo Tokimeki Railway, many services continue west to terminate at Toyama^[1] It is 100.1 kilometers from the starting point of the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line at Kurikara Station and is 294.5 kilometers from Maibara Station.

The station consists of one island platform connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station is unattended.

station side	■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line	for Toyama and Toyama
opposite side	■ Nihonkai Hisui Line	for Itoigawa and Naoetsu

«	Service
Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line
Etchū-Miyazaki	Local	Terminus
Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line
Etchū-Miyazaki	Local	Oyashirazu

Ichiburi Station opened on 15 October 1912.^[2] With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.^[2]

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the former Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.^[3] From this date, Ichiburi Station became a boundary station between the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line of Toyama Prefecture to the west and the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line of Niigata Prefecture to the east.^[3]

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 56 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[4]

^ Osano, Kagetoshi (March 2015). 　北陸新幹線並行在来線各社の姿. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 44, no. 371. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 28–33. {{cite magazine}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
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^ ^a ^b しなの鉄道（株）、えちごトキめき鉄道（株）、あいの風とやま鉄道（株）及びＩＲいしかわ鉄道（株）申請の第一種鉄道事業許可について. News release (in Japanese). Japan: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
^ 平成27年度の乗車状況（平成27年4月1日～平成28年3月31日）［各駅の１日平均乗車人員 (in Japanese). Japan: Echigo Tokimeki Railway Company. 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)