is a passenger
railway station
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in the city of
Maebashi
is the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 335,352 in 151,171 households, and a population density of 1100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . It wa ...
,
Gunma Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima ...
, 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). It is one of two main railway stations of Maebashi; the other is
Chūō Maebashi Station
may refer to:
Places
*Chūō-ku (disambiguation), city wards named Chūō
** Chūō, Tokyo, a special ward in Tokyo
*Chūō, Yamanashi, a city in Yamanashi Prefecture
*Chūō, Kumamoto, a former town in Kumamoto Prefecture
*Chūō, Okayama, a f ...
of the
private railway
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Japan
In Japan, , commonly simply ''private railway'', refers to a public transit railway o ...
operator
Jōmō Electric Railway
Jomo may refer to:
People
* Jomo (given name), an African masculine given name
* Jomo Sono (born 1955), South African soccer club owner, coach and former player Ephraim Matsilela Sono
* nickname of Moemedi Moatlhaping (born 1985), Botswanan footba ...
.
Lines
Maebashi Station is served by the
Ryōmō Line
The is a Japanese railway line connecting Oyama in Tochigi Prefecture with Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture. long, the line is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The name refers to the fact that Gunma and Tochigi pre ...
, and is located 81.9 kilometers from the starting point of the line at
Oyama Station
is a junction railway station in the city of Oyama, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is also a freight depot for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).
Overview
This station is the repr ...
. Some
Shōnan Shinjuku Line and the
Ueno-Tokyo Line services also originate at this station.
Station layout
The station consists of two elevated
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 three tracks, with the station building underneath. 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 ...
'' ticket office.
Platforms
* Platform 1 mainly serves Oyama-bound trains, while Platforms 2,3 mainly serve Takasaki-bound trains.
History
![Maebashi Station before 1936](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Maebashi_Station_before_1936.jpg)
Maebashi Station was opened by Ryōmō Railway on November 20, 1889. From August 20, 1884,
Nippon Railway
was the first private railway company in the history of Japan. The company built trunk lines connecting Tokyo with the Tōhoku region to the northeast. Most of its lines came under the control of Japanese Government Railways following nationaliza ...
operated another Maebashi Station on the other side of the
Tone River
The is a river in the Kantō region of Japan. It is in length (the second longest in Japan after the Shinano) and has a drainage area of (the largest in Japan). It is nicknamed Bandō Tarō (); ''Bandō'' is an obsolete alias of the Kantō ...
, but this station was closed on December 26, 1889 when a bridge across the river was completed and Nippon Railway trains began sharing the Ryōmō Railway station. Ryōmō Railway was merged into Nippon Railway on January 1, 1897 and Nippon Railway was
nationalized
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on November 1, 1906.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 10,511 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
* Maebashi Omote-machi Post Office
See also
*
List of railway stations in Japan
The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan.
External links
{{Portal bar, Japan, Trains
*
Railway stations
Japan
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References
External links
JR East Station information
{{Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Railway stations in Gunma Prefecture
Ryōmō Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889
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