Ichiburi Station

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).

Ichiburi Station 市振駅
Ichiburi Station, September 2011
General information
Location	913 Ichiburi, Itoigawa-shi, Niigata-ken 949-0111 Japan
Coordinates	36.9804°N 137.6506°E / 36.9804; 137.6506
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
FY2017	57 daily
Location Ichiburi Station Location within Japan

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 Tomari^[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.

Station layout

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

Platforms

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

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line
Etchū-Miyazaki		Local		through to Nihonkai Hisui Line
Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line
through to Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line		Local		Oyashirazu

History

Ichiburi Station opened on 15 October 1912.^[2] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (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]

Passenger statistics

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

Surrounding area

• Ichiburi Swimming Beach
• National Route 8
• Site of Ichiburi Barrier

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. Osano, Kagetoshi (March 2015). 　北陸新幹線並行在来線各社の姿 [Guide to companies operating conventional lines alongside the Hokuriku Shinkansen]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 44, no. 371. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 28–33.
2. Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR]. Vol. II. Japan: JTB. p. 141. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
3. 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 [Details of railway business approval for Shinano Railway, Echigo Tokimeki Railway Company, Ainokaze Toyama Railway, and IR Ishikawa Railway]. News release (in Japanese). Japan: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
4. 平成29年度の乗車状況（平成29年4月1日～平成30年3月31日））［各駅の１日平均乗車人員 [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2017)] (in Japanese). Japan: Echigo Tokimeki Railway Company. 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.

External links

• Echigo Tokimeki station information Archived 19 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)