Ōshirakawa Station

Railway station in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Preceding station	JR East			Following station
Irihirose towards Koide		Tadami Line		Tadami towards Aizu-Wakamatsu

Location
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Ōshirakawa Station (大白川駅, Ōshirakawa-eki) is a railway station in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Ōshirakawa Station is served by the Tadami Line, and is 109.2 kilometers from terminus of the line at Aizu-Wakamatsu.

Station layout

The station consists of one ground-level island platform serving two tracks connected by a level crossing. The station is unattended.

History

Ōshirakawa Station opened on 1 November 1942, as the terminus of the western section of the Tadami Line from Koide. In 1971, the line was extended from Oshirakawa to Tadami, thus joining the previously disconnected western and eastern sections of the Tadami Line.^[1] Along with the rest of the Tadami Line, the station came under the ownership of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1949, and was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987.

Between 1951 and 2015, the next station to the west from Ōshirakawa was Kakinoki. Since the closure of that station, trains now run non-stop to Irihirose.^[2]

Surrounding area

Ōshirakawa Post Office
Japan National Route 252

References

^ "Tadami Line User Manual" (PDF). Union Workshop. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
^ ありがとう、柿ノ木駅１４日に廃止、市民団体が集い [Thank you, Kakinoki Station, closing on 14th]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers. 9 March 2015. Archived from the original on 21 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.