is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

in the city of Minamisōma, Fukushima, Japan, operated by

East Japan Railway Company 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 ...

(JR East).

Lines

Haranomachi Station is served by the Joban Line, and is located 286.9 km from the official starting point of the line at .

Station layout

The station has a

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

and an

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a ''

Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...

'' staffed ticket counter.

Platforms

History

Haranomachi Station opened on 3 April 1898. With the privatization of

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East. JR HaranomachiStation 121126 a

Train services from the station were suspended following the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...

on 11 March 2011. From 21 December 2011, limited services were restored on the section of the Joban Line between Haranomachi and . In March 2016, the two trains, a four-car 651 series (''

Super Hitachi is a limited express train service operated in Japan by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on the Jōban Line between Shinagawa Station / Ueno Station in Tokyo and Sendai Station in Miyagi Prefecture. The ''Tokiwa'' service follows the same ...

'') EMU and a 415-1500 series EMU, stranded at the station since the March 2011 tsunami, were removed by road for scrapping. The section of the Joban Line between and Haranomachi reopened on 12 July 2016.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 1024 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

* former Haramachi City Hall * Haramachi Post Office * *Road Station Minamisoma

References

External links

* {{Joban Line Railway stations in Fukushima Prefecture Jōban Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1898 Stations of East Japan Railway Company Minamisōma