Imaizumi Station

Imaizumi Station
今泉駅

Imaizumi Station
Location Imaizumi, Nagai, Yamagata
(山形県長井市今泉)
Japan
Coordinates 38°03′24″N 140°02′39″E / 38.056667°N 140.04425°E / 38.056667; 140.04425Coordinates: 38°03′24″N 140°02′39″E / 38.056667°N 140.04425°E / 38.056667; 140.04425
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections
  • Bus stop
History
Opened 1914
Traffic
Passengers (2012(JR
2011 (Yamagata Railway))
235(JR)
212 (Yamagata Railway) daily

Imaizumi Station (今泉駅 Imaizumi-eki) is a railway station in Nagai, Yamagata, Japan.

Lines

Imaizumi Station is a station on the Yonesaka Line and is 23.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Yonezawa Station. It is also a station on the Flower Nagai Line, and is located 12.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Akayu Station.

Station layout

Imaizumi Station has two island platforms serving four tracks connected to the station building by an overhead walkway.

Platforms

1  Flower Nagai Line for Miyauchi and Akayu
2  Flower Nagai Line for Nagai and Arato
3  Yonesaka Line for Uzen-Komatsu and Yonezawa
4  Yonesaka Line for Uzen-Tsubaki, Oguni and Sakamachi
For Uzen-Komatsu and Yonezawa

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Yonesaka Line
Inukawa   Local   Hagyū
Flower Nagai Line
Nishi-Ōtsuka Local Tokiniwa

History

Imaizumi Station opened on 15 November 1914 as a station on the Nagai Light Railway Line. The Yonesaka Line began operations from 28 September 1926. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, and became a station on the Yamagata Railway from 25 October 1988.

Shirakawa Junction
left:Yonasaka Line for Hagyū
right:Flower Nagai Line for Tokiniwa

The Yonesaka Line (Imaizumi - Hagyū) and Flower Nagai Line (Imaizumi - Tokiniwa) share about 2 km of track. The junction point was called Shirakawa Junction (白川信号場 Shirakawa shingōjō).

Surrounding area

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