is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

in the city of

Kurihara, Miyagi Kurihara City Hall is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 66,565, and a population density of 83 persons per km2 in 24,994 households. The total area of the city is . Parts of the city are with ...

, Japan, operated by the

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

Kurikoma-Kōgen Station is served by the

Tōhoku Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen rail line, connecting Tokyo with Aomori in Aomori Prefecture in a route length of , making it Japan's longest Shinkansen line. It runs through the more sparsely populated Tōhoku region of Japan's main is ...

high-speed line from Tokyo to , and is located 386.97 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .

Station layout

The elevated station has two

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 serving two tracks. The platforms are equipped with

platform screen doors Platform screen doors (PSDs), also known as platform edge doors (PEDs), are used at some train, rapid transit and people mover stations to separate the platform from train tracks, as well as on some bus rapid transit, tram and light rail syste ...

. 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.

Platforms

History

The station opened on 10 March 1990.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 1,048 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* *Shiwahime Post Office *Former Shiwahime town hall

Buses

*Gureen Kankō Bus **For Ishikoshi Station via Wakayanagi **For Tsukidate * Higashi-Nihon Kyūkō Bus **For Sendai Station

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kurikoma-Kogen Railway stations in Japan opened in 1990 Tōhoku Shinkansen Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture Kurihara, Miyagi