Namie Station (浪江駅, Namie-eki) is a railway station in the town of Namie, Fukushima, Japan. Due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, services were suspended from 11 March 2011 to 1 April 2017.
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Namie Station 浪江駅 | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Namie Station in March 2008 | |||||||||||||||
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Location | Gogendo Tsugoe 8, Namie-machi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima-ken 979-1521 Japan | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37.4921°N 140.9897°E / 37.4921; 140.9897 | ||||||||||||||
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Line(s) | ■ Jōban Line | ||||||||||||||
Distance | 268.6 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 | 23 August 1898; 124 years ago (1898-08-23) | ||||||||||||||
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FY2018 | 24 daily | ||||||||||||||
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Namie Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 268.6 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori.
Namie Station has a side platform and one island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unstaffed.
1 | ■ Jōban Line | for Tomioka, Iwaki, Isohara, Takahagi, Hitachi, Katsuta, Mito, Ishioka and Tsuchiura |
2 | ■ Jōban Line | for Haranomachi, Soma and Sendai |
3 | ■ Jōban Line | for Haranomachi |
Namie Station was opened on 23 August 1898. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. The station was closed on 11 March 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Services between Namie and Odaka resumed on 1 April 2017.[1] Services between Namie and Tomioka remain suspended until reopened in March 2020.[2] It became a unstaffed station from March 14, 2020.
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 24 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
Fiscal year | Daily average |
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2000 | 1,057[4] |
2005 | 904[5] |
2010 | 734[6] |
2015 | 0 (Services suspended) |
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 |