Nagahama Station (長浜駅, Nagahama-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Nagahama Station 長浜駅
The east entrance of Nagahama Station, October 2010
General information
Location	1 Kitafunachō, Nagahama-shi, Shiga-ken 526-0057 Japan
Coordinates	35.378483°N 136.265262°E / 35.378483; 136.265262
Operated by	JR West
Line(s)	Hokuriku Main Line
Distance	7.7 km from Maibara
Platforms	1 side + 1 island platform
Other information
Station code	JR-A09 (Hokuriku Line)
Website	Official website
History
Opened	March 10, 1882
Passengers
FY2019	4391 daily
Location
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Lines

Nagahama Station is served by the Hokuriku Main Line, and is 7.7 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Maibara. Between 1991 and 2006, the station was the dividing point of electrification systems (south of the station, including the station, was 1500 V DC and north was 20,000 V AC) so that all regional trains from Osaka and Kyoto using DC-only electric multiple units terminated at this station. In 2006 the DC zone was extended to Tsuruga Station, but there still exist some terminating trains at Nagahama.

Station layout

The station consists of one side platform and one island platform with an elevated station building located above the platforms. The island platform has a cut-out, allowing part of the platform to serve an additional track. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History

Nagahama Station opened on March 10, 1882 under the Japanese Government Railway (JGR). At the time it was the terminal of the railway between Nagahama and Tsuruga. The station became an intermediate station when railway was extended from Nagahama to Sekigahara on May 1, 1883. The route to Sekigahara was later replaced by the route to Maibara.[1] Until 1889 when the Tōkaidō Main Line was completed by the opening of the last section in Shiga Prefecture, Nagahama was a connection point of the railway and the boat on the Biwa Lake which fulfilled the gap of the railways east and west of the lake. The original station, built 1882, is now preserved as a museum (The Old Nagahama Station Museum), and is the oldest preserved railroad station in Japan.[2]

The station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) on 1 April 1987 due to the privatization of JNR. .[3]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 4391 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[4]

Gallery

• 
  Wicket gate, October 2020
• 
  West exit, October 2020
• 
  South exit, October 2020
• 
  Original Station Building（now a museum）

Surrounding area

• Nagahama City Office
• Nagahama Castle (Nagahama Castle Historical Museum)
• Nagahama Port

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

Media related to Nagahama Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Nagahama Station (JR Odekake Net) (in Japanese)