Awa-Kawashima Station | |
Native Name: | 阿波川島駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Kawashimacho Kawashima, Yoshinogawa-shi, Tokushima-ken 779-3301 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JR Shikoku |
Line: | Tokushima Line |
Distance: | 46.2 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side + 1 island platforms |
Tracks: | 3 |
Structure: | At grade |
Accessible: | No - platforms linked by footbridge |
Code: | B11 |
Status: | Unstaffed (since 2010) |
Former: | Kawashima (to 1914) Shingo (to 1915) |
Passengers: | 490 |
Pass Year: | FY2014 |
Map Type: | Japan Tokushima Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Awa-Kawashima Station |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "B11".[1]
Awa-Kawashima Station is served by the Tokushima Line and is 46.2 km from the beginning of the line at . Besides local service trains, the Tsurugisan limited express service between and also stops at Awa-Kawashima.[2]
The station consists of a side platform and an island platform serving 3 tracks. The station building has been unstaffed since 2010[3] and serves only as a waiting room. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.[4] [5] [6]
The station was opened on 19 August 1899 as Kawashima Station by the privately run Tokushima Railway as the terminus of a line from . It became a through-station on 23 December 1899 when the line was extended to . When the company was nationalized on 1 September 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station and operated it as part of the Tokushima Line (later the Tokushima Main Line). On 25 March 1914 it was renamed . On 1 July 1915 it was renamed Awa-Kawashima. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Shikoku. On 1 June 1988, the line was renamed the Tokushima Line.
In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 490 passengers daily.