is a railway station on the Iida Line in the town of Minowa, Kamiina District, Nagano, 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).

Lines

Kinoshita Station is served by the Iida Line and is 185.6 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Toyohashi Station.

Station layout

The station consists of one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track. There is no station building, but only a shelter built on top of the platform. The station is unattended.

Adjacent stations

History

Kinoshita Station opened on 22 February 1911. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Central. The current station building was completed in 1997.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 414 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* * Tenryū River

References

External links

Kinoshita Station information
Railway stations in Nagano Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1911 Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Iida Line Minowa, Nagano {{Nagano-railstation-stub