is an interchange passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

located in the city of

Maibara, Shiga is a city in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 38,259 in 14761 households and a population density of 150 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Maibara is located in northcentral Shiga Pr ...

, Japan. On the border between West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

(JR Central), it is jointly operated by both companies, along with the private railway operator Ohmi Railway. It is also a freight depot for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).

Lines

Maibara Station is served by the JR West Hokuriku Main Line and the Biwako Line section of the

Tōkaidō Main Line The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities. The high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen largely parallel ...

. It is also served by the JR Central

Tōkaidō Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed rail line that is part of the nationwide Shinkansen network. Along with the Sanyo Shinkansen, it forms a continuous high-speed railway through the Taiheiyō Belt, also known as the Tokaido corridor. Opened in 19 ...

and the JR Central portion of Tōkaidō Main Line towards and . It is 445.9 kilometers from Tokyo Station and is the southern terminus of the 176.6 kilometer Hokuriku Main Line to . It is also the terminus for the 44.7 kilometer Ohmi Railway Main Line to .

Station layout

JR

The JR portion of the station consists of three

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 ...

s with six tracks for the Tōkaidō Line and the Hokuriku Line. There is an

, and a

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 ...

with five tracks for the Tōkaidō Shinkansen.

Platforms

Ohmi Railway

The Ohmi Railway portion of the station consists of one

serving two tracks.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Maibara Station opened on July 1, 1889 as a station on the

Japanese Government Railway The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Ra ...

(JGR) Tōkaidō Line, which became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The Ohmi Railway began operations of March 15, 1931. The station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) on April 1, 1987 due to the privatization of the JNR.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the JR West portion of the station was used by an average of 5,514 passengers daily, the JR Central portion by 7,240 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The Ohmi Railway portion of the station was used by 1,069 passengers daily (boarding passengers only) in 2015.

Surrounding area

*Maibara City Society of Commerce *Shiga Prefectural Cultural Industry Exchange Center *Shiga Prefectural Maibara High School *Yanmar Central Research Institute

References

External links

JR West official home pageJR Central official home page
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Lines

Station layout

JR

Platforms

Ohmi Railway

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Passenger statistics

Surrounding area

See also

References

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