Miyajimaguchi Station | |
Native Name: | 宮島口駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Style: | JR West |
Address: | 1 Chome-3-23 Miyajimaguchi, Hatsukaichi-shi, Hiroshima-ken 739-0411 |
Country: | Japan |
Owned: | West Japan Railway Company |
Operator: | West Japan Railway Company |
Line: | Sanyō Main Line |
Distance: | 326.5km (202.9miles) from |
Platforms: | 1 side+ 1 island platform |
Tracks: | 3 |
Code: | JR-R10 |
Accessible: | Yes |
Status: | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) |
Former: | Miyajima (to 1942) |
Passengers: | 4309 |
Pass Year: | FY2019 |
Map Type: | Japan Hiroshima Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Miyajimaguchi Station |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).[1] From the pier near the station there are ferry services for Miyajima (Itsukushima) by JR Miyajima Ferry and Miyajima Matsudai Kisen.
Miyajimaguchi Station is served by the JR West Sanyō Main Line, and is located 326.5 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .
The station consists of one ground-level side platform and one island platform. The station building is located on the side of Platform 1, and is connected to the island platform by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The design of the station building imitates the torii gate of Itsukushima Shrine, and the color of the station building used to be vermilion during the JNR era, but changed from vermilion to brown after the establishment of JR West.
Miyajimaguchi Station was opened as on 25 September 1897 on the San'yo Railway when the section from Hiroshima to Tokuyama was completed.The line was nationalized in 1906, and the line became the San'yo Main Line in 1909. The station was renamed on 1 April 1942. With the privatization of the Japan National Railway (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan railway Company (JR West).
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 4309 passengers daily.[2]
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