is a railway station on the

Gonō Line The is a railway line in Japan linking Higashi-Noshiro Station in Akita Prefecture with Kawabe Station in Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of Honshu. The line stretches 147.2 km (91.5 mi) along the Sea of Japan coast ...

in the town of

Fukaura is a List of towns in Japan, town located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 7,903 in 3695 households, and a population density of 16 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Geography Fukaura is i ...

Aomori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, ...

, 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).

Lines

Todoroki Station is served by the single-track

, and lies 76.0 kilometers from the starting point of the line at . , the station is served by just five services in each direction daily.

Station layout

Todoroki Station has a single

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 ...

, serving bidirectional traffic. The station is unattended. The station building is a wooden structure built onto the platform.

History

The station was opened on December 13, 1934, as a station on 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). With the

privatization Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East.

Surrounding area

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Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it h ...

Gallery

Todoroki Station 20180218.jpg, Station building during the winter, February 2018 Platform of Todoroki Station, Aomori 20190908.jpg, Platform, September 2019

References

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External links

* {{Gono Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Aomori Prefecture Gonō Line Fukaura, Aomori Railway stations in Japan opened in 1934