is a passenger
railway station
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located in the city of
Toride
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is a Cities of Japan, city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 104,329 in 44,755 households and a population density of 1492 persons per km². The p ...
,
Ibaraki Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, ...
,
Japan
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operated by the
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). It is also shared by the
private railway
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Japan
In Japan, , commonly simply ''private railway'', refers to a public transit railway o ...
operator
Kantō Railway
is a private railway company, which operates two lines in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. The company is a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway and other companies.
Additionally, the company has a bus department in Ibaraki Prefecture and Chiba ...
.
Lines
Toride Station is served by the
Jōban Line
The Jōban Line ( ja, 常磐線, ) is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line officially begins at Nippori Station in Arakawa, Tokyo before the line officially ends at Iwanuma Station in Iwanuma, ...
, and is located from the official starting point of the line at
Nippori Station
is a major railway interchange station in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. It is also adjacent to the Yanaka neighborhood of Taito district.
Lines
*East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
** Joban Line (Rapid)
** Keihin-Tohoku Line
**Yamanote Line
* Keise ...
. It is a
terminus
Terminus may refer to:
* Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination
* Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination
Geography
*Terminus, the unofficial original name of Atlanta, Georgia, United ...
of the
Jōsō Line
The is a railway line in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kantō Railway
is a private railway company, which operates two lines in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. The company is a subsidiary of Keisei Elect ...
of the
Kantō Railway
is a private railway company, which operates two lines in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. The company is a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway and other companies.
Additionally, the company has a bus department in Ibaraki Prefecture and Chiba ...
.
Station layout
The JR East portion of the station has three elevated
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 ...
s serving six tracks. 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. The Kantō Railway portion of the station has a single ground level island platform.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 25 December 1896. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon 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
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.
A 27-year-old Japanese man was arrested after stabbing 14 people outside of the west entrance of Toride Station on the morning of 17 December 2010. The suspect was alleged to have boarded a bus where he stabbed mostly high school and middle school students, before being subdued. None of the victims were seriously injured.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 27,277 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
In fiscal 2018, the Kanto Railway portion of the station was used by an average of 11,506 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Surrounding area
*former Toride-shuku
*
Toride Velodrome
is a velodrome located in Toride, Ibaraki, that conducts pari-mutuel keirin racing - one of Japan's four authorized where gambling is permitted. Its keirin identification number for betting purposes is 23# (23 sharp).
Toride's oval is 400 met ...
See also
*
List of railway stations in Japan
The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan.
External links
{{Portal bar, Japan, Trains
*
Railway stations
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It ...
References
External links
JR East station information
{{Joso Line
Railway stations in Ibaraki Prefecture
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1896
Toride, Ibaraki