Tsuboi Station
railway station in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Tsuboi Station (坪井駅, Tsuboi-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Tsuboi Station is served by the Kishin Line, and is located 98.3 kilometers from the southern terminus of the line at Himeji.
Station layout
The station consists of two opposed ground-level side platforms connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station is unattended.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Tsuboi Station opened on August 21, 1923. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 24 passengers daily.
The public source identifies “Tsuboi Station” as railway station in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tsuboi, Station and railway.
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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 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3611011. Authority coordinates are 35.062, 133.877. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923, 1987 and 2019.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tsuboi 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.