is a railway station in the city of

Tsuruga, Fukui is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 66,123 in 28,604 households and the population density of 260 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Geography Tsuruga is located in centra ...

, Japan, operated by

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(JR West). It is served by the

Hokuriku Main Line The Hokuriku Main Line ( ja, 北陸本線, ) is a 176.6 kilometer railway line owned by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) connecting the Maibara Station in Maibara, Shiga, with the Naoetsu Station in Joetsu, Niigata. The section betwe ...

and the

Obama Line The is a railway line on the Sea of Japan coast of central Japan. It is operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The long single track railway connects Tsuruga Station on the Hokuriku Main Line in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture and Higas ...

. A freight-only branch Line known as the Tsuruga Port Line operated by

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also runs from this station.

Lines

Tsuruga Station is served by the

and is located 45.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at . Trains of the

Kosei Line The is a commuter rail line in Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The line was completed in 1974 by the former Japanese National Railways (JNR) to provide faster access from the Kansai region t ...

also continue past their nominal terminus at to terminate at this station. The station is also a terminus of the 84.3 kilometer

to . Tsuruga is scheduled to become a station on the high-speed

Hokuriku Shinkansen The is a high-speed Shinkansen railway line jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West), connecting Tokyo with in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The first section, between and in Nagano Pr ...

line when the extension west of opens around 2025.

Station layout

The station has three

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s serving seven tracks. It 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 station platforms were rebuilt in December 2012, while a new station building was completed at the end of 2013. The overhead line power supply changes between 1,500 V DC and 20 kV AC (60 Hz) at this station (Hokuriku Main Line only).

Platforms

File:敦賀駅 - panoramio (6).jpg, Tsuruga Station in September 2012 File:JR北陸本線敦賀駅 Tsuruga sta. 2014.8.25 - panoramio (1).jpg, New station building in August 2014 File:Turuga Station Midorino Madoguchi.jpg, Midori no Madoguchi ticket office in September 2018 File:TsurugaStationWheelMonument.JPG, Driving wheel monument in August 2006

Adjacent stations

History

Tsuruga Station opened on 10 March 1882. With the

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on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.

Future plans

From October 2014, a gauge-changing test track was scheduled to be built next to the station on the site of the former motive power depot. The 180 m long test track will be used to test an experimental variable-gauge bogie, which can be changed from to and vice versa. The aim is to prove durability in cold and snowy conditions with a view to using the variable-gauge

Gauge Change Train The Gauge Change Train (GCT) or is the name given to a Japanese project started in 1994 to develop a high-speed train with variable gauge axles to allow inter-running between the Shinkansen network, and the narrow gauge regional rail network. ...

on through services between the standard-gauge

and narrow-gauge

in the future.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 3,610 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Tsuruga Public Library * Fukui University, Tsuruga campus

References

External links

JR West station information
{{Hokuriku Shinkansen Railway stations in Fukui Prefecture Stations of West Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Japan opened in 1882 Hokuriku Main Line Obama Line Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company Tsuruga, Fukui