Station

Junikane

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Junikane
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Jūnikane Station began as Jūnikane Signal Stop on 3 December 1929, on the Chūō Main Line between Nojiri and Mitono (now Nagiso) in what is today Nagiso, Nagano. It was upgraded to a full passenger station on 1 September 1948, with parcel handling but no freight service. Operations were contracted out from 26 February 1982, and the station became unstaffed on 1 October 1984, when parcel handling also ended. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Central, and the current station building dates from a 1992 rebuild. The line between Nagiso and the station was damaged in July 2014, prompting a substitute bus service that ran until services resumed on 6 August 2014.

Notes

The platforms sit atop an embankment reached by stairs and are linked by a footbridge, and Jūnikane marks the start of double-track operation southwards toward Nagoya, which also makes it a station where trains can pass one another.

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