Hirosaki Station

Hirosaki Station 弘前駅

Location	1-1 Omotemachi, Hirosaki, Aomori （青森県弘前市表町1-1） Japan
Operated by	JR East Kōnan Railway
Line(s)	Ōu Main Line, Kōnan Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1894

Hirosaki Station (弘前駅, Hirosaki-eki) is a railway station in the city of Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Kōnan Railway.

Lines

Hirosaki Station is served by the Ōu Main Line, and is located 447.1 km from the southern starting point of the Ōu Main Line at Fukushima Station. Although the terminus of the Gonō Line is at Kawabe Station, most trains continue on to terminate at Hirosaki for ease of connections. It also forms the terminus of the 16.8 km private Kōnan Railway Kōnan Line to Kuroishi.

Limited express trains

Hirosaki Station is served by the following limited express train services.

Tsugaru (Aomori - Akita)
Akebono overnight sleeper service (Ueno - Aomori)
Nihonkai overnight sleeper service (Osaka - Aomori)

Station layout

Hirosaki Station is an elevated station. The JR portion has a single side platform and an island platform, serving three tracks, and the Kōnan Railway has a bay platform serving another two tracks. The station has a JR East Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office and View Plaza travel agency.

JR East platforms

1-3	■ Ou Main Line	for Ōdate and Akita
	■ Ou Main Line	for Namioka and Aomori
	■ Gono Line	for Goshogawara and Fukaura

Konan Railway platforms

The Konan Railway platforms, October 2008

1-2

■ Kōnan Line

Hiraka and Kuroishi

Adjacent stations

←	Service		→
Ōu Main Line
Ishikawa	Local		Naijōshi
Kōnan Railway Ōwani Line
Terminus	Local	Hirosaki-Higashikōmae

History

Hirosaki Station opened on December 1, 1894.^[1] On September 7, 1927, the Konan Railway also began operations at Hirosaki Station.^[2] The station building was again reconstructed in 1981 to incorporate a shopping center. With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. A new station building was completed in December 2004.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2012, the JR East station was used by an average of 4,489　passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[3] The Konan Railway station was used by an average of 2,851 passengers daily in fiscal 2011.^[2] The JR East passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	4,578^[4]
2005	4,424^[5]
2010	4,348^[6]
2011	4,442^[7]
2012	4,489^[3]

Surrounding area

Hirosaki Post office
Hirosakiekimae Post office
Hirosaki Bus terminal

Bus services

Local services

Kōnan Bus
- For Karekitaira via Dake hot spring
- For Fujishiro via Hamanomashi or Komagoshi
- For Goshogawara Station via Fujisaki, Itayanagi and Tsuruta
- For Namioka via Fujisaki
- For Kuroishi Station via Inakadate
- For Koguriyama via Hirosaki University
- For Sōma via Akudo
- For Tashiro via Kuniyoshi
- For Aomori Airport (Express bus)

Long-distance bus services

Jodel (ヨーデル, Yōderu) (operated by Kōnan Bus, JR Bus Tohoku, Iwate-Kenpoku Bus, and Iwate-Kenkōtsu)
- For Morioka Station

References

Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

↑ 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 128. ISBN 4-533-00503-9.
1 2 Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 196. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.
1 2 各駅の乗車人員 (2012年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
↑ 各駅の乗車人員 (2000年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
↑ 各駅の乗車人員 (2005年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
↑ 各駅の乗車人員 (2010年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
↑ 各駅の乗車人員 (2011年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 1 November 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hirosaki Station.

JR East station information page (Japanese)
Konan Railway station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Ōu Main Line

Fukushima to Shinjō (Yamagata Line)	Fukushima Sasakino Niwasaka Akaiwa Itaya Tōge Ōsawa Sekine Yonezawa Oitama Takahata Akayu Nakagawa Uzen-Nakayama Kaminoyama-Onsen Mokichi Kinenkan-mae Zaō Yamagata Kita-Yamagata Uzen-Chitose Minami-Dewa Urushiyama Takatama Tendō-Minami Tendō Midaregawa Jimmachi Sakurambo-Higashine Higashine Murayama Sodesaki Ōishida Kita-Ōishida Ashisawa Funagata Shinjō

Shinjō to Ōmagari	Shinjō Izumita Uzen-Toyosato Mamurogawa Kamabuchi Ōtaki Nozoki Innai Yokobori Mitsuseki Kami-Yuzawa Yuzawa Shimo-Yuzawa Jūmonji Daigo Yanagita Yokote Gosannen Iizume Ōmagari

Ōmagari to Aomori (formerly Ōu North Line)	Ōmagari Jingūji Kawarino Mineyoshikawa Ugo-Sakai Ōbarino Wada Yotsugoya Akita Tsushizaki Kami-Iijima Oiwake Ōkubo Ugo-Iizuka Ikawa-Sakura Hachirōgata Koikawa Kado Moritake Kita-Kanaoka Higashi-Noshiro Tsurugata Tomine Futatsui Maeyama Takanosu Nukazawa Hayaguchi Shimokawazoi Ōdate Shirasawa Jimba Tsugaru-Yunosawa Ikarigaseki Nagamine Ōwani-Onsen Ishikawa Hirosaki Naijōshi Kawabe Kita-Tokiwa Namioka Daishaka Tsurugasaka Tsugaru-Shinjō Shin-Aomori Aomori

Stations of the Kōnan Railway Kōnan Line

Hirosaki Hirosaki-Higashikōmae Undōkōenmae Nisato Tachita Hiraka Hakunōkōkōmae Tsugaru-Onoe Onoekōkōmae Tamboāto Inakadate Sakaimatsu Kuroishi

Coordinates: 40°35′56.22″N 140°29′6.12″E / 40.5989500°N 140.4850333°E / 40.5989500; 140.4850333

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