Mure Station Explained

Mure Station
Native Name:牟礼駅
Native Name Lang:ja
Address:4921-1 Toyono, Iizuna-machi, Kamiminochi-gun, Nagano-ken 387-0013
Country:Japan
Coordinates:36.7532°N 138.247°W
Operator: Shinano Railway
Line: Kita-Shinano Line
Distance:18.6 km from
Platforms:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Elevation:487.1 meters
Status:Staffed
Opened:1 May 1888
Passengers:767
Pass Year:FY2013
Map Type:Japan Nagano Prefecture#Japan
Map Dot Label:Mure Station

is a railway station on the Kita-Shinano Line in Iizuna, Nagano, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway.[1]

Lines

Mure Station is served by the 37.3 km Kita-Shinano Line and is 18.6 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Nagano Station.

Station layout

The station has two opposed ground-level side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.[1]

Platforms

History

The station opened on 1 May 1888.[2] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).[2]

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies.[3] From this date, Mure Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Shinano Railway.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, while still under the control of JR East, the station was used by an average of 767 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[4]

Surrounding area

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Shinano Mainichi Shimbun . Nagano Prefecture All Railway Stations, revised edition (長野県鉄道全駅 増補改訂版) . 2011 . Shinano Mainichi Shinbun Publishing . 9784784071647 . 29. ja.
  2. Book: ja: 停車場変遷大辞典 国鉄・JR編. Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR. JTB . Ishino. Tetsu. 1998 . Japan . II. 580. 4-533-02980-9.
  3. Osano. Kagetoshi . ja: 北陸新幹線並行在来線各社の姿 . Guide to companies operating conventional lines alongside the Hokuriku Shinkansen . Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine . 44. 371 . 28–33 . Kōtsū Shimbun . Japan . Japanese . March 2015.
  4. Web site: http://www.jreast.co.jp/passenger/2013_06.html. ja: 各駅の乗車人員 (2013年度). Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013). 2014. East Japan Railway Company. Japan. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160404052925/https://www.jreast.co.jp/passenger/2013_06.html . 4 April 2016 . live . 8 February 2017.