Ishiyama Station | |
Native Name: | 石山駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Awazu-cho, Ōtsu-shi, Shiga-ken 520-0832 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 34.9799°N 135.9002°W |
Operator: | JR West |
Line: | Biwako Line |
Distance: | 53.2 km from |
Platforms: | 2 island platforms |
Structure: | Ground level |
Accessible: | Yes |
Style: | JR West |
Opened: | 1 April 1903 |
Passengers: | 24,103 |
Pass Year: | 2019 |
Map Type: | Japan Shiga Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Ishiyama Station |
right|thumb|270px|Ishiyama Station accident, 1930 is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It is also a freight deport for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight). The station is located adjacent to the Keihan Electric Railway Keihan-ishiyama Station with which it is connected by a concourse.
Ishiyama Station is served by the Biwako Line portion of the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is 53.2 kilometers from and 499.1 kilometers from .
The station consists of two island platforms with 4 tracks on the ground and 2 siding tracks on both sides of the outer tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
The route of the Tōkaidō Main Line passed through Ishiyama in 1889, but no station was built until 1 April 1903. On 25 April 1930 a derailment accident occurred at the station when an express train from Tokyo en route to Shimonoseki overturned when passing a point at high speed. Thirteen people were injured, but there were no fatalities. The station became part of the JR West network on 1 April 1987 with the privation of the Japan National Railway (JNR).
Station numbering was introduced to the station in March 2018 with Ishiyama being assigned station number JR-A27.[1] [2]
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 24,103 passengers (boarding passengers only) in 2019,[3] making it the 26th-busiest station by traffic in the West Japan Railway Company's network.