Esumi Station
railway station in Susami, Nishimuro district, Wakayama prefecture, Japan
Esumi Station (江住駅, Esumi-eki) is a passenger railway station in located in the town of Susami, Nishimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Esumi Station is served by the Kisei Main Line (Kinokuni Line), and is located 242.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kameyama Station and 61.8 kilometers from Shingū.
Station layout
The station consists of one island platform connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station is unattended.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Esumi Station opened on September 7, 1938. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 13 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The public source identifies “Esumi Station” as railway station in Susami, Nishimuro district, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Esumi, Station and railway.
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This entry incorporates text from “Esumi 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.