Namie Station
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JR EastNamie Station 浪江駅 | |||||||||||||||
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 Namie Station in March 2008 | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Gogendo Tsugoe 8, Namie-machi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima-ken 979-1521 Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°29′32″N 140°59′23″E / 37.4921°N 140.9897°E | ||||||||||||||
| Operated by | JR East | ||||||||||||||
| Line | ■ Jōban Line | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 268.6 km from Nippori | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side + 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||
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| Status | unstaffed | ||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 23 August 1898 | ||||||||||||||
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| FY2018 | 24 daily | ||||||||||||||
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Namie Station (浪江駅, Namie-eki) is a railway station in the town of Namie, Fukushima, Japan. Due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, services were suspended from 11 March 2011 to 1 April 2017.
Namie Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 268.6 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori.
Station layout
Namie Station has a side platform and one island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unstaffed.
Platforms
| 1 | ■ Jōban Line | for Tomioka, Iwaki, Isohara, Takahagi, Hitachi, Katsuta, Mito, Ishioka and Tsuchiura |
| 2 | ■ Jōban Line | for Haranomachi, Soma and Sendai |
| 3 | ■ Jōban Line | for Haranomachi |
History
Namie Station was opened on 23 August 1898. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. The station was closed on 11 March 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Services between Namie and Odaka resumed on 1 April 2017.[1] Services between Namie and Tomioka remain suspended until reopened in March 2020.[2] It became an unstaffed station from March 14, 2020.
Passenger statistics
Surrounding area
- Namie Town Hall
- Namie Post Office
National Route 6
