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JR West , 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 ...

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on the

Kure Line The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) within Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. It begins at Mihara Station in Mihara and terminates at Kaitaichi Station in Kaita. It is one of the main lines of JR West. The secti ...

, located in

Kure, Hiroshima is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...

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History

*Opened as a station of the

Japan 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 ...

on December 27, 1903 *Lent to the

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on December 1, 1904. *Sanyo Railway was nationalized on December 1, 1906. *Started the reconstruction of the station on April 9, 1922. *Completed the reconstruction and started the operation on August 13, 1923. *Completely destroyed by fire in the Kure Air Raid on July 2, 1945. *Started the construction of the new building of the station in December 1945. *Finished the construction on April 30, 1946. *Held the opening ceremony on May 6, 1946. *Started the operation on May 7, 1946. *Opened the current station building on July 7, 1981. *Stopped the cargo service on November 1, 1986. *Privatized on April 1, 1987. *Redecorated the station building and named the building as "Crest" in 1997.

Station layout

Platforms

Adjacent stations

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Connecting bus routes

Hiroden Bus

Chugoku JR Bus

Kure City Bus

Around the station

*Kure Sogo *Yumetown Kure *Babcock-Hitachi K.K *

Yamato Museum The is the nickname of the in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan. History The museum opened on April 23, 2005. It is nicknamed the Yamato Museum due to the display in the lobby of a 1/10 scale model of the battleship ''Yamato'', the flagship of the ...

Kure Port is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...

Kure University is a private university in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan ...

- Kure Station Campus, Extension Center * Irifuneyama Park * Irifuneyama Kinenkan *Kure City Hall *

Kure City Transportation Bureau is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...

* Kurealine *

Kure Interchange is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...

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JR West station information
{{coord, 34.244861, 132.557758, display=t, type:railwaystation Kure Line Railway stations in Hiroshima Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1903