is a railway station on the

Obama Line The is a railway line on the Sea of Japan coast of central Japan. It is operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The long single track railway connects Tsuruga Station on the Hokuriku Main Line in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture and Higashi ...

in the city of

Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...

Fukui Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Fukui Prefecture has a population of 778,943 (1 June 2017) and has a geographic area of 4,190 km2 (1,617 sq mi). Fukui Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the north, Gi ...

, Japan, operated by

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...

(JR West).

Lines

Higashi-Obama Station is served by the

, and is located 46.2 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .

Station layout

Higashi-Obama Station has one

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 ...

serving a single bi-directional track. The station is staffed and is located inside the Obama Municipal Sōgō Welfare Center building. File:Higashi Obama station 20170617.jpg, The platform in June 2017

History

Higashi-Obama Station was opened on 14 August 1953. 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 West.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 390 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Fukui Prefecture Wakasa Governmental Office *Onyū Post Office *Wakasa Historical Folk Customs & Culture Center *Wakasa Rikuen *Fukui Prefecture Wakasa Heliport *Fukui Prefectural Wakasa East High School *Employment and Human Resources Development Organization of Japan (Polytech Center Obama) * *

Wakasahiko Shrine 260px, Wakasahime Jinja 260px, Onyu Festival at Wakasahime Jinja(Festival dedicated to God) is a Shinto shrine in the city of Obama in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is the ''ichinomiya'' of former Wakasa Province. The main festivals of the shrine ...

Others

The station is going to be passed through

Hokuriku Shinkansen The is a high-speed Shinkansen railway line jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West), connecting Tokyo with in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The first section, between and in Nagano Pr ...

around 2046.Discussion for construction of Shinkansen
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References

External links

* {{Hokuriku Shinkansen Railway stations in Japan opened in 1953 Stations of West Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Fukui Prefecture Obama Line Obama, Fukui