is an interchange railway station on the high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen line and

Jōhana Line The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It connects Takaoka with Johana. Route data *Operating Company: West Japan Railway Company (Services and tracks) *Distance: *Track gauge: ...

Takaoka, Toyama is a city in the northwestern portion of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Takaoka has the second largest population after Toyama City. The area that is east of Kureha hill (呉羽丘陵 Kureha-kyuryo) has been called Goto (呉東), which means the east ...

, Japan, operated by

West Japan Railway Company , 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 ...

(JR West). It opened on 14 March 2015, coinciding with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to .

Lines

Shin-Takaoka Station is served by the

and the high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen line from to , and is located 305.8 km from the official starting point of the line at . Semi-fast ''

Hakutaka The is a high-speed ''shinkansen'' train service jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West) between and on the Hokuriku Shinkansen line in Japan. The shinkansen service was introduced on ...

'' Tokyo-to-Kanazawa services and all-stations '' Tsurugi'' Toyama-to-Kanazawa shuttle services stop at Shin-Takaoka.

Station layout

The station consists of two elevated

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 for the Hokuriku Shinkansen running east to west, with exits on the north and south sides. The Jōhana Line has a single side platform located at ground level, running north to south on the west side of the station complex. A west exit is also provided to the west of the Jōhana Line platforms.

Platforms

The single-track Jōhana Line is served by an un-numbered ground-level

. The elevated shinkansen platforms consist of two 312 m long

side platforms 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 ...

serving two tracks. The platforms are fitted with chest-high

platform edge door 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 ...

s. The departure melody used for the shinkansen platforms was composed by , who was born in Toyama Prefecture. File:Shin-Takaoka platforms 1-2 20150314.jpg, The Hokuriku Shinkansen platforms, March 2015 File:Shin-Takaoka Johana Line platform 20150314.jpg, The Johana Line platform viewed from the main station building, March 2015

Facilities

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.

Adjacent stations

History

Although provisionally named Shin-Takaoka Station from its conception, the name was formally finalized and announced in June 2013. A public survey was conducted in 2012, with the following names put forward. # (173 votes) # (163 votes) # (107 votes) # (59 votes) # (43 votes) The name Shin-Takaoka was however ultimately selected by JR West. The groundbreaking ceremony for the Johana Line station building was held on 14 September 2013.

Surrounding area

* Takaoka Station (on the

Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line The is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 2012 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Toyama Prefecture when it was separated from the JR West network in Mar ...

, approximately 1 km away) * Zuiryū-ji Temple, a 15-minute walk away * Aeon Mall Takaoka *

References

External links

* {{JR Johana Line Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture Hokuriku Shinkansen Stations of West Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Japan opened in 2015 Takaoka, Toyama