is a railway station in the city of Fukushima,

Fukushima Prefecture Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,810,286 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miyagi ...

, Japan. The station is the terminus for the JR East Yamagata Shinkansen, and Ōu Main Line, as well as the third-sector Abukuma Express Line and privately operated Fukushima Kotsu Iizaka Line.

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JR East 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 ar ...

** Tohoku Shinkansen **

Yamagata Shinkansen The is a Mini-shinkansen route in Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It provides service between Tokyo and Shinjō in Yamagata Prefecture over the tracks of the Tohoku Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line. The term Yam ...

Tōhoku Main Line The Tōhoku Main Line ( ja, 東北本線, ) is a long railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line starts from Tokyo Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and passes through such cities as Saitama, Utsunomiya, Fuku ...

Ōu Main Line The is a railway line in Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Fukushima Station through Akita Station to Aomori Station. Since the opening of the Yamagata Shinkansen on July 1, 1992, the Fukushima–Yama ...

Abukuma Express is a third-sector railway transportation company headquartered in Date, Fukushima, Japan. History AbukumaExpress was founded on April 5, 1984, as a third-sector railway for the purpose of taking over operation of Japanese National Railways' Ma ...

Abukuma Express Line The is a railway line in Japan, owned and operated by the third sector operator AbukumaExpress. The line connects Fukushima Station in Fukushima Prefecture and Tsukinoki Station in Miyagi Prefecture. Both of these stations are also on the ...

Fukushima Transportation is a rail and bus transportation company headquartered in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. It operates the Iizaka Line rail line and an extensive bus network, which primarily serves the Nakadōri and northern section of the Ham ...

Iizaka Line Iizaka may refer to: *Iizaka, Fukushima, a former town in Fukushima, Japan ** Iizaka Onsen Station, a train station in Iizaka, Fukushima **Fukushima Kōtsū Iizaka Line The is a railway line connecting Fukushima Station with the onsen town ...

Station layout

The station is separated into an east and a west section. Within the area after entering the ticket gates, the opposite sections of the station are accessible via a pedestrian tunnel that runs over the tracks. Outside of the ticketed area, pedestrians must use a tunnel to access the opposite section. Cyclists and other vehicles must utilize the bridges to either the north or south of the station. All lines, except for the

and the

, are accessible through the main entrance of the East or West sections of the station. The Abukuma Express Line and the Iizaka Line have a separate entrance on the Northeast side of the station. The JR portion of the station uses one

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 platfo ...

, one

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 o ...

and one

bay platform In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines. It is normal for bay platforms to be shorter than their associated through platforms. Overview Bay and isl ...

(with two bays) to serve a total of six tracks for regular trains, and two elevated island platforms for Shinkansen operations. 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 Gro ...

'' staffed ticket office. The Abukuma Express Line and the Fukushima Kōtsū Iizaka Line share a single

History

Nippon Railway was the first private railway company in the history of Japan. The company built trunk lines connecting Tokyo with the Tōhoku region to the northeast. Most of its lines came under the control of Japanese Government Railways following nationali ...

opened Fukushima Station and the railway between Kōriyama Station and Shiogama Station (later called Shiogamakō Station) on December 15, 1887. This railway was later nationalized and named the

. The government railways opened the railway, later named the

, between Fukushima Station and

Yonezawa Station is a junction railway station in the city of Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Yonezawa Station is served by the Ōu Main Line and the Yamagata Shinkansen, and is located 40.1 kilometers from ...

on May 15, 1899. The Iizaka Line was opened on April 13, 1924 by . The Tōhoku Shinkansen opened on June 23, 1982 and the Abukuma Express Line opened on July 1, 1988. Through services between the Tōhoku Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line, under the name Yamagata Shinkansen, began on July 1, 1992. JR East announced in 2020 a plan to construct an elevated crossing serving the Yamagata Shinkansen to rectify bottleneck issues with Tokyo-bound ''

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'' trains having to cross over to Platform 14 to connect with '' Tsubasa'' trains. The new line will consist of 760 m of surface level track and 540 m of elevated viaduct connecting to Platform 11. Estimated date of completion is 2026.

Bus terminals

Highway buses

* For

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, Iwaki Station, Iwaki-Taira Velodrome * For Nihonmatsu,

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* ''Abukuma''; For

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and

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Passenger statistics

In fiscal year 2016, the station was used by an average of 16,536 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

Fukushima Station is located in the centre of the city of Fukushima.

References

External links

JR East Station information

Abukuma Express Station information

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Bus terminals

Highway buses

Passenger statistics

Surrounding area

See also

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