Awa-Kamo Station | |
Native Name: | 阿波加茂駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Kamo, Higashimiyoshi, Miyoshi-gun, Tokushima-ken 779-4701 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JR Shikoku |
Line: | Tokushima Line |
Distance: | 6.6 km from |
Platforms: | 1 island platform |
Tracks: | 2 + 2 sidings |
Structure: | At grade |
Accessible: | No - island platform accessed by footbridge |
Code: | B22 |
Status: | Unstaffed but some types of tickets available from kan'i itaku agent onsite |
Passengers: | 242 |
Pass Year: | FY2014 |
Map Type: | Japan Tokushima Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Awa-Kamo Station |
is a passenger railway station located in the town of Higashimiyoshi, Miyoshi District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "B22".[1]
Awa-Kamo Station is served by the Tokushima Line and is 6.6 km from the beginning of the line at . Besides local trains, the Tsurugisan limited express service also stops at Awa-Kamo.[2]
The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. Two sidings branch off the main tracks. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.[3] [4] [5] JR Shikoku closed its ticket window in 2010[6] but a municipal information centre was set on the station premises in 2012 who sells some types of tickets as a kan'i itaku agent.[7]
Awa-Kamo was opened on 25 March 1914 as one of several intermediate stations built when Japanese Government Railways (JGR) extended the track of the Tokushima Main Line from to . With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor to JGR, on 1 April 1987, Awa-Kamo came under the control of JR Shikoku. On 1 June 1988, the line was renamed the Tokushima Line.
In 2012, the local municipal authority set up the which has pamphlets of local attractions, offers bicycle rentals, sells local products and also sells some types of train tickets.[8]