is a railway station on the

Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line The is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 2012 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Toyama Prefecture when it was separated from the JR West network in Mar ...

in the city of

Uozu, Toyama is a Cities of Japan, city in the eastern part of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 42,224 in 16,811 households and a population density of 210 persons per km². Its total area was . Geography Uozu lies in be ...

, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator

Ainokaze Toyama Railway The is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 2012 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Toyama Prefecture when it was separated from the JR West network in Mar ...

. It is also a freight terminal for the Japan Freight Railway Company.

Lines

Uozu Station is served by the

and is 67.1 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .

Station layout

Uozu Station has one ground-level

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 ground-level

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. The station is staffed.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Uozu Station opened on 16 November 1908. 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 former Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies. From this date, Uozu Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Ainokaze Toyama Railway.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 2,142 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* Shin-Uozu Station * Kurobe Public Hospital

References

External links

* {{Ainokaze Toyama Railway Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company Railway stations in Japan opened in 1908 Uozu, Toyama