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Hakuba-Ōike Station

railway station in Otari, Kitaazumi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5640612 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hakuba-Ōike Station (白馬大池駅, Hakuba-Ōike-eki) is a railway station in Chikuni, the village of Otari, Kitaazumi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Hakuba-Ōike Station is served by the Ōito Line and is 65.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Matsumoto Station.

Station layout

The station consists of one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended.

History

The station opened on 25 September 1948. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987 the station came under the control of JR East.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hakuba-Ōike Station” as railway station in Otari, Kitaazumi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hakuba-Ōike, Station and railway can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Otari, Kitaazumi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5640612. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 1987.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hakuba-Ōike Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hakuba-Ōike Station primary sources, Hakuba-Ōike Station archive and Hakuba-Ōike research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Hakuba-Ōike Station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Hakuba-Ōike 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.