Kami-Ōi Station

Kami-Ōi Station 上大井駅
General information
Location	Kami-Ōi, Ōi, Ashigarakami, Kanagawa （神奈川県足柄上郡大井町上大井） Japan
Operated by	Central Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Gotemba Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1948
Passengers
2006	479 daily

Kami-Ōi Station (上大井駅, Kami-Ōi-eki) is a station on the Gotemba Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in southern portion of the town of Ōi in Ashigarakami District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

History

Kami-Ōi Station was opened on June 1, 1948 on the Japan National Railways (JNR) Gotemba Line for passenger service only. The route through the station was electrified in 1968. Freight services were discontinued on February 1, 1971. On April 1, 1987 along with privatization and division of JNR, the station came under control of the Central Japan Railway Company. It has been unmanned since March 22, 1997.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Gotemba Line

Station layout

Kami-Ōi Station has two opposed side platforms and wooden station building. When it opened, it had only a single through platform, but just before the electrification of the Gotemba Line, facilities for trains' crossing had been attached and the station came to have two platforms.

Around the station

• Ōi Town Office
• Odawara City Office Soga Branch Office
• The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company Ōi Main Office
• Ebara Foods Industry Central Research Facility

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Gotemba Line
Shimo-Soga		Local	Sagami-Kaneko

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

• Template:Ja icon Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
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