Mutsu-Ichikawa Station

Mutsu-Ichikawa Station 陸奥市川駅
Mutsu-Ichikawa Station
Location	Ichikawamachi, Hachinohe, Aomori （青森県八戸市大字市川町字和野前山17） Japan
Operated by	Aoimori Railway
Line(s)	Aoimori Railway Line
History
Opened	1944

Platforms of Mutsu-Ichikawa Station

Mutsu-Ichikawa Station (陸奥市川駅, Mutsu Ichikawa-eki) is a railway station on the Aoimori Railway Line located in the city of Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is 89.11 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Aoimori Railway Line at Aomori Station.

History

Mutsu-Ichikawa Station was opened on November 5, 1926 as the Todoroki Signal (轟信号場, Todoroki shingōjō) on the Tōhoku Main Line. It was elevated in status to a full station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecssor to the Japan National Railways (JNR), on November 11, 1944. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in October 1971, and the station has been managed from Hachinohe Station since February 1985. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010. The station has been unattended since 1999.

Lines

• Aoimori Railway Company
  • Aoimori Railway Line

Station layout

Mutsu-Ichikawa Station has an island platform and a side platform serving three tracks, connected the station building by an overpass. However, only tracks 1 and 3 are in use, and the rails for track 2 have been pulled up, giving the station an effective structure of two opposed side platforms. The small station building is unmanned.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

See also

• List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

• JTB Timetable December 2010 issue

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mutsu-Ichikawa Station.

• Aoimori Railway station information page (Japanese)

Coordinates: 40°33′47.65″N 141°26′21.51″E / 40.5632361°N 141.4393083°E / 40.5632361; 141.4393083