Mizuhashi Station | |
Native Name: | 水橋駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | 676-2 Mizuhashi Iseya, Toyama-shi, Toyama-ken 939-3524 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | 22px Ainokaze Toyama Railway |
Line: | Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line |
Distance: | 53.1 km from |
Platforms: | 2 side platforms |
Tracks: | 2 |
Status: | Staffed |
Opened: | 16 November 1908 |
Passengers: | 965 daily |
Pass Year: | FY2015 |
Map Type: | Japan |
is a railway station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line in the city of Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Ainokaze Toyama Railway.
Mizuhashi Station is served by the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line and is 53.1 kilometres from the starting point of the line at .
Mizuhashi Station has two opposed ground-level side platforms connected by a footbridge. The station is staffed.
Mizuhashi Station opened on 16 November 1908 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), later becoming the Japanese National Railways (JNR). It was privatized on 1 April 1987, becoming a station on JR West.
From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to, local passenger operations over sections of the former Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.[1] From this date, Mizuhashi Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Ainokaze Toyama Railway.
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 965 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]