Miwa Station | |
Native Name: | 三輪駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Style: | JR West |
Symbol Location: | jp |
Symbol: | jrw |
Type: | JR-West commuter rail station |
Address: | Ōaza Miwa,Sakurai-shi, Nara-ken 633-0001 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 34.5272°N 135.8484°W |
Owned: | West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) |
Operator: | Unstaffed |
Distance: | 18km (11miles) from |
Platforms: | 1 side platform and 1 converted side platform |
Tracks: | 2 |
Train Operators: | JR-West |
Connections: | None |
Structure: | At grade |
Parking: | None |
Bicycle: | Available |
Website: | http://www.jr-odekake.net/eki/top.php?id=0621708 |
Passengers: | 715 daily |
Pass Year: | 2020 |
Map Type: | Japan Nara Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Miwa Station |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
Services Collapsible: | yes |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Sakurai, Nara, Japan. It is operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Although the station is on the Sakurai Line as rail infrastructure, it has been served by the Man-yō Mahoroba Line since 2010 in terms of passenger train services. It is 18.0 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .
Miwa Station is an above-ground station with two side platforms and two tracks, allowing trains to pass each other, and the effective length of the platform can accommodate up to six cars. There is a station building on the No. 1 (upbound) platform side, and an footbridge connects to No. 2 (downbound) platform.. The station is unattended.[1]
Miwa Station opened on 11 May 1898 as a station on the Nara Railway. The Nara Railway was acquired by the Kansai Railway in 1905, which was subsequently nationalized in 1907.[2] With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2020 was 715 passengers.[3]