Station

Oka (Miyagi)

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Oka (Miyagi)
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Oka Station opened on 1 April 1968 as a station of Japanese National Railways, in the city of Kakuda, Miyagi. Operations transferred to the third-sector Abukuma Express on 1 July 1986. The unattended single-platform station has no ticket gate; a small plaza on the east side connects directly to the platform by steps, and the platform is accompanied by a waiting room and a long, narrow garden. The tracks on either side of the station were laid out with Y-shaped turnouts in preparation for making Oka a passing station, so that a second track could be added opposite the present platform, though it has never been built. The station's slogan, "Town that pioneers tomorrow's space", refers to the nearby Kakuda Space Center.

Notes

Track geometry through Oka still includes Y-point preparations for a never-built second crossing platform.

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