Kusano Station (Fukushima)
Kusano Station 草野駅 | |||||||||||
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 Kusano Station, January 2013 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Taira Izumisaki, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima-ken 970-0112 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°04′26″N 140°56′51″E / 37.07389°N 140.94750°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by | .svg){kind=logo} JR East | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Jōban Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 214.8 km from Nippori | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side + 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
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| Opened | August 29, 1897 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| FY2018 | 397 daily | ||||||||||
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Kusano Station (草野駅, Kusano-eki) is a railway station in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
[edit]Kusano Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 214.8 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori.[1]
Station layout
[edit]The station has an island platform and a side platform connected by a footbridge. It became an unstaffed station on March 14, 2020.[1]
Platforms
[edit]| 1 | ■ Jōban Line | for Iwaki, Isohara, Takahagi, Hitachi, Katsuta and Mito |
| 2 | ■ Jōban Line | for starting trains |
| 3 | ■ Jōban Line | for Yotsukura, Hirono Tomioka, Namie and Haranomachi |
History
[edit]Kusano Station opened on August 29, 1897. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.[1] Services were suspended from March 11 to April 17, 2011, following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Passenger statistics
[edit]In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 397 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]
Surrounding area
[edit]- Kusano Post Office
National Route 6
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]
- Official website (in Japanese)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c 郡山駅・会津若松駅・三春駅ほか (Koriyama Station, Aizu-Wakamatsu Station, Miharu Station, etc). 週刊 JR全駅・全車両基地 (in Japanese). Vol. 50. Asahi Newspaper Publishing. 2013-08-04. p. 27. ASIN B00DNBCZL0.
- ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2018年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2018)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.