was a railway station on the Kaikyo Line in

Shiriuchi, Hokkaido is a town located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Demographics As of September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 4,620, and a density of 23 persons per km². Geography Shiriuchi is located on the southwest of the Oshima Pe ...

, Japan, operated by

Hokkaido Railway Company The is one of the constituent companies of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group), and is often referred to using its official abbreviation of . It operates intercity and local rail services in Hokkaido, Japan. The company introduced Kitaca, a sm ...

(JR Hokkaido). Opened in 1990, it closed in March 2014. The undersea

Seikan Tunnel The Seikan Tunnel ( ja, 青函トンネル, or , ), is a dual-gauge railway tunnel in Japan, with a portion under the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Aomori Prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honshu from the northern isla ...

to the main Japanese island of

Honshu , historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separ ...

is not far from this station.

Lines

Shiriuchi Station was served by the Kaikyo Line, which connects Honshu with the northern island of

Hokkaido is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The la ...

via the Seikan Tunnel. Only '' Hakuchō'' and '' Super Hakuchō'' limited express services stopped at this station, with just two trains in each direction stopping daily in 2013.JR Timetable March 2013, p.680-682

Station layout

The station had 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 were connected to the station entrance by a footbridge. File:Shiriuchi Station entrance 20101025.jpg, The station entrance in October 2010 File:Shiriuchi Station platform 20101025 (1).jpg, View of the platforms in October 2010 File:Shiriuchi Station platform 20101025 (2).jpg, View of the platforms in October 2010

Platforms

History

Shiriuchi Station opened in 1990. The station was closed from the start of the 15 March 2014 timetable revision to make way for

Hokkaido Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen rail line that links up with the Tōhoku Shinkansen in northern Aomori Prefecture in Honshu and continues on into the interior of Hokkaido through the undersea Seikan Tunnel. Construction started in May ...

construction work. Following the closure of the station, the

signal In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. Any quantity that can vary over space or time can be used as a signal to share messages between observers. The ''IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing'' ...

located there was renamed .

Surrounding area

* National Route 228

References

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