Jina

Kawaneonsen-Sasamado – Senzu: suspended from 24 September 2022 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Oigawa Main Line →

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Jina Station was one of the original stations of the Ōigawa Main Line and opened on 16 July 1930 along with the rest of the route. It remained largely unchanged until 24 September 2022, when landslides caused by Typhoon No. 15 forced the suspension of services through this part of the line. The station retains a single island platform serving two tracks with a level-crossing approach and a small wooden station building. While the station itself is unstaffed, a quasi-commission arrangement with a tobacconist across the street keeps tickets on sale. It lies 22.9 kilometres along the line from its starting point at Kanaya.

On the station grounds stands a sign billing the short shroud-like tunnel just north of Jina as "Japan's shortest tunnel?" — question mark included. In fact the 8.7-metre Kawajiri Tunnel on the Kure Line is shorter; the roughly 11-metre structure at Jina is the surviving shroud built to shield the tracks from a freight aerial cableway that crossed overhead until it was abandoned in the late 1930s.