is a railway station in the city of

Kōriyama is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 321,938 people in 141760 households, and a population density of 425 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Kōriyama is designated as a core city and ...

Fukushima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,771,100 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miyagi Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture ...

, Japan, operated by the

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and 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 are in ...

(JR East), with a freight terminal operated by the Japan Freight Railway Company.

Lines

Kōriyama Station is served by the high-speed Tōhoku Shinkansen line and

Tōhoku Main Line The Tōhoku Main Line () is a 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, Saitama, Saitama, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Uts ...

, and is located 226.7 km from the official starting point of the Tōhoku Main Line at . It is also served by the Banetsu East Line and is 85.6 km from the starting point of that line at . It is also a terminus for the Suigun Line and the Banetsu West Line.

Station layout

Kōriyama Station has two

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s 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. They must have a buffer stop ...

serving trains on the conventional (

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...

) lines, and one island platform and 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 platforms, ...

for shinkansen traffic. The station has a ''

Midori no Madoguchi , short for ''Magnetic-electronic Automatic'' ''Reservation System,'' is a train ticket reservation system used by the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and travel agencies in Japan. It was developed jointly by Hitachi and the former Ja ...

'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

The song "Tobira" (扉, ''Tobira'') is used as a departure melody on all conventional platforms and the song " Kiseki" (キセキ, ''Kiseki'') is used as a departure melody on all Shinkansen platforms in 2015. Both songs are by Greeeen, a hip hop group originating in Kōriyama.

History

Komiyama Station opened on July 16, 1887, with service on the Nippon Railway between Kōriyama and Kuroiso. The line was extended to Sendai Station, Miyagi and on December 15, 1887. Services on the Ganetsu Line began from July 26, 1898. The station building was rebuilt in 1900. In 1906, the Nippon Railway became the Japanese Government Railway and the station was rebuilt in 1913. On October 10, 1917, the name of Ganetsu Line was changed to Banetsu Line. The station was rebuilt in 1951 and once again in 1980. From June 23, 1982, services on the Tohoku Shinkansen began.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 18,110 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). Data for previous years as follows:

Surrounding area

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

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koriyama Station Stations of East Japan Railway Company Tōhoku Shinkansen Railway stations in Fukushima Prefecture Tōhoku Main Line Ban'etsu West Line Ban'etsu East Line Suigun Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1887 Kōriyama Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company