Tsubata Station | |
Native Name: | 津幡駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | 7 Chi, Minamichujo, Tsubata-machi, Kahoku-gun, Ishikawa-ken 929-0343 |
Country: | Japan |
Distance: | 11.5 km from |
Platforms: | 2 island platforms |
Tracks: | 4 |
Status: | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) |
Passengers: | 5,130 daily |
Pass Year: | FY2015 |
Map Type: | Japan |
is a railway station in the town of Tsubata, Kahoku District, Ishikawa, Japan, jointly operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and the third-sector railway operator IR Ishikawa Railway.
Tsubata Station is served by the IR Ishikawa Railway Line between and, and lies 11.5 km east of Kanazawa. It is also the starting point of the JR West Nanao Line to . Through trains to and from the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line also operate over this line.
The station consists of two island platforms serving four tracks, connected by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
The station opened on 1 November 1898.[1] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.[1] From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to, local passenger operations over sections of the Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.[2] From this date, Tsubata Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company IR Ishikawa Railway.
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 5,130 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]