is a railway station on the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line in the city of

Jōetsu, Niigata is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 189,430, in 76,461 households with a population density of 190 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Jōetsu borders the Sea of Japan and ...

, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

Lines

Tanihama Station is served by the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line, and is 52.7 kilometers from the starting point of the line at and 347.2 kilometers from Maibara Station.

Station layout

The station consists of one

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 ...

and one

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 ...

, connected by a footbridge; however, one side of the island platform is not used. The station is unattended.

Platforms

File:Tanihama-eki2.JPG, The view from platform 1 in August 2013 looking toward Arimagawa File:Tanihama-eki3.JPG, The view from platform 1 in August 2013 looking toward Naoetsu

Adjacent stations

History

The station opened on 1 July 1911. With the privatization of

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) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West. From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to , local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies. From this date, Tanihama Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 21 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Tanihama Beach *Tanihama Post Office *

References

External links

Train timetables
{{Nihonkai Hisui Line Railway stations in Niigata Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1911 Stations of Echigo Tokimeki Railway Jōetsu, Niigata