Asakawa Station
railway station in Kaiyo, Kaifu district, Tokushima prefecture, Japan
Asakawa Station (浅川駅, Asakawa-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Kaiyō, Kaifu District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "M26".
Lines
Asakawa Station is served by the Mugi Line and is located 75.4 km from the beginning of the line at Tokushima. All trains stop at this station.
Layout
The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. There is no station building, only a shelter on the platform for passengers. Like the previous station, Sabase, an access road slopes up steeply from National Route 55, giving direct access to the platform. At the base of the access road is a parking area, a bike shed, a public phone callbox and a toilet building.
History
Japanese National Railways (JNR) opened the station on 1 October 1973 as an intermediate station when the track of the Mugi Line was extended from Mugi to Kaifu. On 1 April 1987, with the privatization of JNR, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.
The public source identifies “Asakawa Station” as railway station in Kaiyo, Kaifu district, Tokushima prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Asakawa, Station and railway.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4803422. Authority coordinates are 33.627, 134.359. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Asakawa Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.