Jūō Station (十王駅, Jūō-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
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Jūō Station 十王駅 | |||||||||||
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Jūō Station, January 2014 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Jūō-cho Tomobe 177, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki-ken 319-1304 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 36.6712°N 140.6863°E / 36.6712; 140.6863 | ||||||||||
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Line(s) | ■ Jōban Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 156.6 km from Nippori | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
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Status | Staffed | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 25 February 1897; 125 years ago (1897-02-25) | ||||||||||
Previous names | Kawajiri (until 2004) | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2019 | 2957 daily | ||||||||||
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Jūō Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 156.6 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori Station.
The station has consists of one elevated island platform connected to the station building by an underground passageway. It is staffed.
1 | ■ Joban Line (JU Ueno-Tokyo Line) |
for Hitachi, Katsuta, Mito, Tomobe, Ishioka, Tsuchiura, Ueno, Tokyo and Shinagawa |
■ Mito Line | for Hitachi, Katsuta, Mito, Tomobe, Kasama, Shimodate and Oyama | |
2 | ■ Jōban Line | for Takahagi, Isohara, Iwaki, Tomioka and Haranomachi |
Jūō Station was opened on 25 February 1897 as Kawajiri Station (川尻駅). The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. It was renamed to its present name on 13 March 2004.
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 2957 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1]
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Stations of the Jōban Line | ||
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Stations served only by the Chiyoda Line through service local trains between Kita-Senju and Abiko are omitted. | JJ |