Kaminaka Station
railway station in Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka district, Fukui prefecture, Japan
Kaminaka Station (上中駅, Kaminaka-eki) is a railway station on the Obama Line in the town of Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Kaminaka Station is served by the Obama Line, and is located 38.8 km from Tsuruga.
Station layout
The station consists of two opposed side platforms. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Adjacent stations
History
The station opened on 10 November 1918 as Miyake Station (三宅駅). It was renamed Kaminaka Station on 10 April 1956. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 268 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The public source identifies “Kaminaka Station” as railway station in Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka district, Fukui prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kaminaka, Station and railway.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kaminaka 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.