Asamushi-Onsen Station (浅虫温泉駅, Asamushi-Onsen-eki) is a railway station and major stop along the Aoimori Railway Line in the city of Aomori in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.
Asamushi-Onsen Station 浅虫温泉駅 | |||||||||||
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 Asamushi-Onsen Station In September 2008 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Asamushi, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture 039-3501 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°53′27.56″N 140°51′43.92″E / 40.8909889°N 140.8622000°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by |  Aoimori Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 104.7 km from Metoki 17.2 km from Aomori | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island + 1 side platform | ||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 September 1891 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Asamushi (until 1986) | ||||||||||
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| 683 daily boardings (2018) | |||||||||||
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Passenger trains serve the station 17 and a half hours a day; the departure time between trains is roughly 30 minutes during the morning peak with reduced frequency at other times. The station also serves as a bus station for Aomori City Bus and Shimokita Kōtsu, with local bus routes connecting the station to communities throughout the city of Aomori and neighboring Hiranai.
Location
editAsamushi-Onsen Station is one of six principal stations served by the Aoimori Railway Line,[1] and is 104.7 kilometers (65.1 mi) from the terminus of the line at Metoki Station. It is 722.0 kilometers (448.6 mi) from Tokyo.
Surrounding area
edit- Asamushi Aquarium
- Asamushi Onsen
- Asamushi-Natsudomari Prefectural Natural Park
- Asamushi Post Office
National Route 4
Station layout
editAsamushi-Onsen Station has an island platform and a side platform serving three tracks. The platform is connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station building is attended from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.[2]
Platforms
edit| 1 | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | for Noheji, Misawa and Hachinohe |
| 2 | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | (not normally used) |
| 3 | ■ Aoimori Railway Line | for Aomori |
History
editThe station opened on 1 September 1891, as Asamushi Station (浅虫駅, Asamushi-eki) on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR), after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on 1 November 1906. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in February 1962. The station was renamed as Asamushi-Onsen Station on 1 November 1986. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010.[3]
Services
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The station is primarily served by trains operating on a local service on the Aoimori Railway Line between Aomori and Hachinohe. It is served by one express train, the 560M train operated jointly by the Aoimori Railway and the Iwate Galaxy Railway between Aomori and Morioka. Passenger trains serve Asamushi-Onsen Station for 17 and a half hours each day from 6:01 am to 11:31 pm. At peak hours between the first train and 9:16 am, trains depart from the station roughly every 30 minutes; otherwise trains depart at an approximate hourly basis.[4] In 2018, a daily average of 683 passengers boarded trains at Asamushi-Onsen Station,[5] an increase from the daily average of 330 passengers the station served in 2010, the final year of its ownership by JR East.[6] In 2018, the station was the ninth busiest on the Aoimori Railway Line, excluding Aomori and Hachinohe stations, and the least busiest along the line in the city of Aomori.[5]
Bus services
edit- Aomori City Bus
- Aomori Station via Nonai
- Shimokita Kōtsu
- Mutsu Bus Terminal via Hiranai, Noheji Station, Arito Station, Yokohama, Chikagawa Station
- Shin-Aomori Station via Aomori Prefectural Office[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Aoimori Railway Line Route and Fares" (PDF). September 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "浅虫温泉駅" [Asamushi-Onsen Station] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "青森市最大の温泉街の駅" [Aomori's largest onsen station] (in Japanese). 23 August 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "青い森鉄道列車時刻表" [Aoimori Railway Train Timetable] (PDF) (in Japanese). Aoimori Railway Co., Ltd. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ a b "浅虫温泉駅（青い森鉄道）の乗降客数の統計" [Passenger statistics of Asamushi-Onsen Station]. statresearch (in Japanese). 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ "各駅の乗車人員" [Passengers at each station] (in Japanese). JR East. 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ "青森線（青森～むつ方面行き）" [Aomori Route (Aomori-Mutsu)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Shimokita Kōtsu. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
External links
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- Official website (in Japanese)
