is an interchange passenger
railway station
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located in the city of
Wakayama Wakayama may refer to:
*Wakayama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
*Wakayama (city)
Wakayama City Hall
is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 351,391 in 157066 househol ...
,
Wakayama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 944,320 () and has a geographic area of . Wakayama Prefecture borders Osaka Prefecture to the north, and Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture ...
, Japan, operated by the private railway company
Nankai Electric Railway
is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates a ...
..
To distinguish it from
Wakayama Station
is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of Wakayama (city), Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, jointly operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and the private railway company Wakayama Electric Railway.
Li ...
(JR West, Wakayama Railway), the station is called "".
Lines
Wakayamashi Station has the Nankai station number "NK45" and is served by
Nankai Electric Railway
is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates a ...
s
Nankai Main Line
The is one of the two main railway lines of Japanese private railway company Nankai Electric Railway, together with Kōya Line. The route is from Namba Station in south downtown of Osaka to Wakayamashi Station in Wakayama via Sakai, Izumiōtsu ...
,
Kada Line and
Wakayamako Line. It is located 64.2 kilometers from .
It is also served by the
Kisei Main Line
The is a railway line that parallels the coastline of the Kii Peninsula in Japan between Mie Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture. The name takes the ''kanji'' characters from the names of the old provinces of and .
The line is operated by Ce ...
, operated by
West Japan Railway Company
, also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...
and is 384.2 kilometers from the terminus of that line at and 3.3 kilometers from
Station layout
280px, Track Layout
The station has one ground-level
island platform
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and three
bay platform
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Overview
Bay and islan ...
s serving six tracks, and each platform is connected by a footbridge from the ticket gates on the second floor of the station building.
Platforms
File:Wakayamashi station07n4592.jpg, Ticket gates
File:Wakayamashi Station 2 line1.jpg, Platform 2
Adjacent stations
History
Wakayamashi Station opened on March 21 1903.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 4,340 passengers daily. During the same period, the Nankai Railway portion of the station was used by 16,455 passengers daily.
Surrounding area
* Wakayama Civic Library
*
Wakayama Castle
260px, Layout of the ''tenshu''
is a Japanese castle located in the city Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. For most of the Edo Period, it was the administrative center of Kishū Domain, which was controlled by a cadet branch of the Tokugawa ...
*Wakayama Velodrome
*Wakayama City Museum
* Wakayama City Children's Science Museum
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
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References
External links
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JR West station information
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1903
Railway stations in Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama (city)
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