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Kamikitachō Station

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Kamikitachō

上北町
Regional rail station
Kamikitachō Station in September 2023
General information
Location1-22-97 Kamikita Kita, Tōhoku, Kamikita District, Aomori Prefecture 039-2404
Japan
Coordinates40°43′58.30″N 141°15′52.96″E / 40.7328611°N 141.2647111°E / 40.7328611; 141.2647111
Operated by Aoimori Railway
Line(s) Aoimori Railway Line
Distance57.4 km from Aomori
Platforms1 side + 1 island platform
ConnectionsBus
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Other information
StatusStaffed
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened1 September 1891
Previous namesNumazaki (until 1959)
Passengers
554 daily boardings (2018)
Services
Preceding station Aoimori Railway Following station
Misawa
towards Hachinohe
Shimokita
(limited service)
Ottomo
towards Noheji
Kogawara
towards Metoki
Aoimori Railway Line Ottomo
towards Aomori
Location
Kamikitachō is located in Aomori Prefecture
Kamikitachō
Kamikitachō
Location within Aomori Prefecture
Kamikitachō is located in Japan
Kamikitachō
Kamikitachō
Kamikitachō (Japan)

Kamikitachō Station (上北町駅, Kamikitachō-eki) is a railway station in the town of Tōhoku in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.

Location

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Kamikitachō Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 57.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Aomori Station. It is 674.7 kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Surrounding area

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Station layout

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Kamikitachō Station has one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, connected to a single-story station building by a footbridge. Only the outer tracks 1 and 3 are in regular operation. The station is staffed.

Platforms

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1  Aoimori Railway Line for Noheji and Aomori
2  Aoimori Railway Line (siding)
3  Aoimori Railway Line for Misawa and Hachinohe

History

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Kamikitachō Station was opened on 1 September 1891 as Numazaki Station (沼崎駅, Numazaki-eki) on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railway (JNR), on 1 July 1906. On 1 October 1959, the station was renamed to its present name. With the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

On 4 December 2010, the Tōhoku Shinkansen was successfully extended north to Shin-Aomori Station from Hachinohe.[1] As a result of the opening of the bullet train between the two stations, that section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to the Aoimori Railway Company from JR East on the same day.[2]

Services

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Kamikitachō Station is primarily served by trains operating on a local service on the Aoimori Railway Line between Aomori and Hachinohe. It is served by two rapid express trains, the Shimokita service operated jointly by JR East and the Aoimori Railway between Hachinohe and Ōminato and the 560M train operated jointly by the Aoimori Railway and the Iwate Galaxy Railway between Aomori and Morioka. Passenger trains serve Kamikitachō Station just over 17 hours a day from 6:12 am to 11:23 pm.[3] In 2018, a daily average of 554 passengers boarded trains at Kamikitachō Station,[4] an increase from the daily average of 213 passengers the station served in 2010, the final year of its ownership by JR East.[5] In 2018, the station was the tenth busiest on the Aoimori Railway Line, excluding Aomori and Hachinohe stations, and the busiest along the rail line in the town of Tōhoku.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Tokyo-Aomori bullet train debuts". The Japan Times. Aomori. Kyodo. 5 December 2010. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ "青い森鉄道線について" [About the Aoimori Railway Line] (in Japanese). Aoimori Railway Co., Ltd. 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  3. ^ "青い森鉄道列車時刻表" [Aoimori Railway Train Timetable] (PDF) (in Japanese). Aoimori Railway Co., Ltd. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b "上北町駅(青い森鉄道)の乗降客数の統計" [Passenger statistics of Kamikitachō Station]. statresearch (in Japanese). 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  5. ^ "各駅の乗車人員" [Passengers at each station] (in Japanese). JR East. 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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