Kurogo Station
railway station in Chikusei, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
Kurogo Station (黒子駅, Kurogo-eki) is a passenger train station in the city of Chikusei, Ibaraki, Japan, operated by the private railway company Kantō Railway.
Lines
Kurogo Station is a station on the Jōsō Line, and is located 43.6 km (27.1 mi) from the official starting point of the line at Toride Station.
Station layout
The station consists of one side platform and one island platform, connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
Kurogo Station was opened on 11 January 1913 as a station on the Jōsō Railroad, which became the Kantō Railway in 1965. The station building was rebuilt in August 2003.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 78 boarding passengers daily.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kurogo 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.