Saijō Station
railway station in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan
Saijō Station (西条駅, Saijō-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Saijō Station is served by the JR West Sanyō Main Line, and is located 272.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kobe.
Station layout
The station consists of one side platform and one island platform connected by an elevated station building. The station is staffed.
Platforms
History
Saijō Station was opened on 10 June 1894. With the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 9488 passengers daily.
The public source identifies “Saijō Station” as railway station in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Saijō, Station and railway.
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This entry incorporates text from “Saijō 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.