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Mukaichiba

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Mukaichiba
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Mukaichiba Station was established on 11 November 1955 as a Japanese National Railways passenger stop when the Iida Line between Sakuma and Ōzore was rerouted on a new alignment to clear the rising reservoir of the Sakuma Dam. The station became unstaffed on 1 December 1971, and on 1 April 1987 it transferred to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) with the breakup of JNR. The single-track station has one ground-level side platform and no station building; a small waiting room stands on the platform itself. Day-to-day affairs are handled from Chūbu-Tenryū Station. In fiscal 2024 the station averaged five boarding passengers daily.

Notes

Mukaichiba averaged just five boarding passengers a day in fiscal 2024 — typical of the deep-mountain stretch of the Iida Line between Sakuma and Ōzore, built on a new alignment specifically to bypass the Sakuma Dam's reservoir.

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