Tamboāto Station | |
Native Name: | 田んぼアート駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Inakadate, Minamitsugaru-gun, Aomori-ken 038-1111 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 40.6332°N 140.5734°W |
Operator: | Kōnan Railway |
Line: | Konan Railway Konan Line |
Distance: | 13.4 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side platform |
Tracks: | 1 |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Map Type: | Japan Aomori Prefecture#Japan |
is a railway station on the Konan Railway Konan Line in Inakadate, Aomori, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Konan Railway.
Tamboāto Station is served by the 16.8 km Konan Railway Konan Line between and and is located 13.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .
The station has one side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is open only between April and November.[1]
Originally scheduled to open on 1 August 2013,[2] Tamboāto Station opened on 27 July 2013 at a cost of 31.2 million yen.[3] Construction of the new station was funded entirely by the village of Inakadate.[3]
Three former Konan Railway diesel cars, KiHa 2105, KiHa 2107, and KiHa 2230, were preserved next to the line for a number of years, painted in various bright colours, but these were due to cut up in November 2013 due to their poor condition.[4]
The station was built to provide access to the nearby rice paddies used for creating rice paddy art each year.[3]