Kawageta Station | |
Style: | JR East |
Native Name: | 川桁駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | 3605 Shinmachi Kawageta, Inawashiro-machi, Yama-gun, Fukushima-ken 969-2663 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JR East |
Line: | Ban'etsu West Line |
Distance: | 33.4 km from |
Platforms: | 2 side platform |
Tracks: | 2 |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Opened: | August 4, 1899 |
Passengers: | 107 daily |
Pass Year: | FY 2004 |
is a railway station on the Ban'etsu West Line in the town of Inawashiro, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Kawageta Station is served by the Ban'etsu West Line, and is located 33.4 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at .
Kawageta Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unattended.
Kawageta Station opened on August 4, 1899 for freight operations and on November 3, 1900 for passenger operations. A private branch line, the Bandai Express Electric Railway extended from this station to Numajiri from 1913 to 1969. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.