is a passenger

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located in the city of Konan,

Shiga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to the nort ...

, Japan, operated by the

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(JR West).

Lines

Ishibe Station is served by the

Kusatsu Line The is a railway line in western Japan operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It connects Tsuge on the Kansai Main Line with Kusatsu on the Biwako Line The is the nickname used by the operator of the West Japan Railway Compa ...

, and is 27.6 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .

Station layout

The station consists of two opposed

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 ...

s connected by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History

Ishibe Station opened on December 15, 1889 as a station on the Kansai Railway, which was nationalized in 1907 to become part of the

Japanese Government Railway The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR), and subsequently the

Japan National Railway 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) . The station became part of the West Japan Railway Company on April 1, 1987 due to the privatization and dissolution of the JNR.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 1871 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* Yoshimiko Shrine -10 minutes on foot * Yoshihime Shrine -15 minutes on foot * Ishibe-shukuba no Sato -15 minutes on foot * Ishibe Historical Museum -15 minutes on foot

References

External links

JR West official home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ishibe Station Railway stations in Shiga Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889 Konan, Shiga