is a railway station on the Tokaido Shinkansen located in the city of Hashima, Gifu, Japan, operated by

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

(JR Central). It is the sole Shinkansen station in

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Lines

Gifu-Hashima Station is served only by the Tokaido Shinkansen, and is located from the terminus of the line at .

Shin-Hashima Station is a railway station located in the city of Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Meitetsu. It is located in front of Gifu-Hashima Station on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and allows passengers to go from the hi ...

, the terminal of the Meitetsu Hashima Line is located in front of the Shinkansen station and provides railway access to the city of

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Station layout

The station has two island platforms serving four tracks, with two additional centre tracks for non-stop passing trains. The station has a '' Midori no Madoguchi'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History

The station opened on October 1, 1964. With the privatization and dissolution of Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of JR Central.

Surrounding area

Gifu College of Nursing is a public university at Hashima, Gifu, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, whil ...

External links

References

*Yoshikawa, Fumio. ''Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi''. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) . Railway stations in Gifu Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1964 Central Japan Railway Company Tōkaidō Shinkansen Hashima, Gifu {{Gifu-railstation-stub