Karibasawa Station | |
Native Name: | 狩場沢駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Type: | Regional rail station |
Address: | Karibasawa, Hiranai, Higashitsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture 039-3343 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 40.9003°N 141.0713°W |
Line: | Aoimori Railway Line |
Platforms: | 1 island + 1 side platform |
Distance: | 83.8 km from |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Opened: | 4 January 1894 |
Map Type: | Japan Aomori Prefecture#Japan |
is a railway station in the town of Hiranai in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.
Karibasawa Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 83.8 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Metoki Station. It is 701.1 kilometers from .
Karibasawa Station has two opposite side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The small station building is unattended.
Karibasawa Station was opened on January 4, 1894 as a station on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR), after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on November 1, 1906. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in February 1962. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010.