is a railway station in

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, 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

Koide Station is served by the

Jōetsu Line The is a major railway line in Japan, owned by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture with Miyauchi Station in Niigata Prefecture, linking the northwestern Kanto region and the Sea of Japan ...

, and is 132.2 kilometers from

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of the line at . It is the terminus of the

Tadami Line The is a scenic railway line in Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Aizu-Wakamatsu Station at Aizuwakamatsu in Fukushima Prefecture with Koide Station at Uonuma in Niigata Prefecture. The line opened in discont ...

and is 135.2 kilometers from the opposite terminus of the line at .

Station layout

The station consists of 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 ...

and two

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 ...

s serving five tracks. The platforms are connected 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 office. File:Koide Station Home.jpg, Platforms

Platforms

History

The station opened on 1 September 1923 as an intermediate station on the

. It became the western terminus of the western section of the

, to , in 1942, and western terminus of the completed line in 1971. 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.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 940 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*former Koide town hall *Koide Post Office * Koide High School *Koide Middle School *Koide Elementary School *

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Japan National Route 352 National Route 352 is a national highway of Japan connecting Kashiwazaki, Niigata and Kaminokawa, Tochigi in Japan, with a total length of 329 km (204.43 mi). Route description A section of National Route 352 in the city of Uonuma i ...

References

External links

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Koide Station (JR East)
Railway stations in Niigata Prefecture Stations of East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Japan opened in 1923 Jōetsu Line Tadami Line {{Niigata-railstation-stub