Ochii Station
railway station in Ichikawamisato, Nishiyatsushiro district, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan
Ochii Station (落居駅, Ochii-eki) is a train station on the Minobu Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in the town of Ichikawamisato, Nishiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
Lines
Ochii Station is served by the Minobu Line and is located 61.8 kilometers from the southern terminus of the line at Fuji Station.
Layout
Ochii Station has one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. There is no station building, but there is a wooden shelter on the platform. The station is unattended.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Ochii Station was opened on June 1, 1930, as a passenger stop on the Fuji-Minobu Line. It was upgraded to a full station on October 1, 1938. The line came under control of the Japanese Government Railways on May 1, 1941. The JGR became the JNR (Japan National Railway) after World War II. Along with the division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company.
The public source identifies “Ochii Station” as railway station in Ichikawamisato, Nishiyatsushiro district, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ochii, Station and railway.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7076320. Authority coordinates are 35.504, 138.471. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1938, 1941 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ochii 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.