Kamimoku Station
railway station in Minakami, Tone district, Gunma prefecture, Japan
Kamimoku Station (上牧駅, Kamimoku-eki) is a passenger railway station in the town of Minakami, Gunma, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Kamimoku Station is a station on the Jōetsu Line, and is located 53.7 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Takasaki.
Station layout
The station consists of two opposed side platforms built on an embankment, and connected to the station building by an underground passage. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
Kamimoku Station opened on 30 October 1928. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, it came under the control of JR East.
“Kamimoku Station” enters the record as railway station in Minakami, Tone district, Gunma prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kamimoku, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1770591. Authority coordinates are 36.735, 138.984. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kamimoku 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.