Kannon Station (観音駅, Kannon-eki) is a railway station on the privately operated Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.
 Kannon Station 観音駅 | |||||||||||
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 Kannon Station in August 2012 | |||||||||||
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| Location | 36–1 Maejuku-chō, Chōshi-shi, Chiba-ken 288–0031 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°43′44″N 140°50′24″E / 35.72889°N 140.84000°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Chōshi Electric Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Chōshi Electric Railway Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 1.1 km from Chōshi | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 (1 side platform) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | No | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | CD03 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | December 1913 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1925, 1991 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1 July 1925 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| FY2010 | 108 daily | ||||||||||
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Lines
editKannon Station is served by the 6.4 km Chōshi Electric Railway Line from Chōshi to Tokawa. It is between Nakanochō and Moto-Chōshi stations and is one kilometer from Chōshi Station.[1]
Station layout
editThe station consists of one side platform serving a single track.[2] The station building was rebuilt in December 1991 to resemble a Swiss mountain railway station.[3] The station is staffed,[1] and, until March 2017, included a shop that baked taiyaki cakes.[4]
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The ticket office and waiting area in November 2017 -
The former taiyaki cake shop in November 2017 -
The station platform in November 2017
History
editKannon Station first opened in December 1913 as a station on the Chōshi Sightseeing Railway (銚子遊覧鉄道, Chōshi Yūran Tetsudō), which operated a distance of 5.9 km between Chōshi and Inuboh.[5] The railway closed in November 1917,[5] but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway.[1] In 1925, the station was moved to its current location, further away from Nakanochō Station.[3]
The taiyaki cake shop inside the station was scheduled to close at the end of March 2017, over 40 years after it opened in 1976.[4]
Passenger statistics
editIn fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 108 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[6] The passenger figures for past years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | Daily average |
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| 2007 | 152[7] |
| 2008 | 171[8] |
| 2009 | 127[9] |
| 2010 | 108[6] |
Surrounding area
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 208. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.
- ^ Shirato, Sadao (June 2011). 銚子電気鉄道（上） [Choshi Electric Railway Volume One]. Japan: Neko Publishing Co., Ltd. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-4-7770-5309-4.
- ^ a b c メルヘン駅舎（各駅案内） [Fairy tale station buildings (Station information)] (in Japanese). Choshi Electric Railway. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ a b 銚子電鉄 観音駅の「たい焼き」店閉店へ 愛され４０年 [Choshi Electric Railway Kannon Station taiyaki shop to close after 40 years]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers. 19 February 2017. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ a b Shirato, Sadao (March 2014). 銚子遊覧鉄道 [Chōshi Sightseeing Railway]. The Railway Pictorial (in Japanese). 64 (887). Japan: Denkisha Kenkyūkai: 108–109.
- ^ a b 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2010(平成22)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2010)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2007(平成19)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2008)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2008(平成20)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2008)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2009(平成21)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2009)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
External links
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- Official website (in Japanese)