Yūki Station
railway station in Yūki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Yūki Station (結城駅, Yūki-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Yūki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Yūki Station is served by the Mito Line, and is located 6.6 km from the official starting point of the line at Oyama Station.
Station layout
The station has an elevated station building with one side platform and one island platform. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.
Platforms
History
Yūki Station was opened on 16 January 1889. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. The station building was rebuilt as part of an urban renewal program in 1994.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 2041 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The public source identifies “Yūki Station” as railway station in Yūki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yūki, Station and railway.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yūki 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.