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Tsuruta Station
is a railway station in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Tsuruta Station is served by the NikkÅ Line, and is located 4.8 kilometers from the starting point of the line at . Station layout The station consists of one island platform, serving two tracks and connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed. Platforms History Tsuruta Station opened on 2 September 1902. Prior to this, the area was served by , which was located to the west of present-day Tsuruta Station. Togami Station was closed with the opening of Tsuruta. On 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East with the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR). A new station building was completed in March 2014. Passenger statistics In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 1457 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). Surrounding area * Esojima Station, on the Tobu Utsunomiya Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JR East
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, and next to the Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya and Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is also one of the three only Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the other being JR Central and JR West. History JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002. Following the breakup, JR East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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