is a railway station on 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 discon ...

in the city of

Aizuwakamatsu is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 118,159 in 50,365 households, and a population density of 310 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Geography Aizuwakamatsu is located in the west ...

, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Nanukamachi is "七日町" in Japanese. It means that bazaar was held on the seventh day in Edo era. "七日町" is also called "Nanokamachi".

Lines

Nanukamachi Station is served by the

and is located 1.3 rail kilometres from the official starting point of the line at Aizu-Wakamatsu Station. It is also served by trains of the Aizu Railway Aizu Line to continue past the nominal terminus of the line at and travel on the .

Station layout

Nanukamachi Station has one

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serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended; however, within the station building is the "EkiCafe", a shop that sells many things of Aizu region, such as traditional sweets. And it also has an information corner about sightseeing in Aizu.駅Cafe.
The bus for sightseeing of Aizuwakamatsu stops at Nanukamachi station, It's called "Haikara-san".

History

Nanukamachi Station opened on November 1, 1934, as an intermediate station on the initial eastern section of the

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) Tadami Line between and . Operations were suspended from June 20, 1945, to June 20, 1946. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the

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of the JNR on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed July 28, 2002.

Surrounding area

* Amida Temple * Aizuwakamatsu city hall * Aizuwakamatsu post office * Wakamatsu-Nanukamachi post office * Nisshin Elementary School * Aoi Senior High School * Aizuwakamatsu Xaverio Gakuen ** Elementary School ** Junior High School ** Senior High School * * * Fukushima Prefectural Route 59 * Fukushima Prefectural Route 325 * Fukushima Prefectural Route 326

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