Myōkō-Kōgen Station
妙高高原駅 | |||||
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Myōkō-Kōgen Station in June 2015
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| General information | |||||
| Location | 312 Taguchi, Myōkō-shi, Niigata-ken 949-2106 Japan | ||||
| Coordinates | 36°52′19″N 138°12′44″E / 36.8720°N 138.2121°E / 36.8720; 138.2121 | ||||
| Elevation | 510 m[1] | ||||
| Operated by |
 Echigo Tokimeki Railway | ||||
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| Distance | 37.3 km from Nagano | ||||
| Platforms | 1 side + 1 island platforms | ||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 May 1888 | ||||
| Previous names | Taguchi (until 1969) | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| FY2017 | 282 daily | ||||
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Myōkō-Kōgen Station (妙高高原駅, Myōkō-Kōgen-eki) is a railway station in Myōkō, Niigata, Japan, jointly operated by the third-sector railway operators Shinano Railway and Echigo Tokimeki Railway.
Myōkō-Kōgen forms the boundary station between the 37.3 kmShinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line from Nagano and the 37.7 kmEchigo Tokimeki Railway Myōkō Haneuma LinetoNaoetsu. No regularly scheduled through-running services operate, but a cross-platform transfer is provided, with Shinano Railway trains normally using platform 2 and Echigo Tokimeki Railway trains normally using platform 3.[2]
The station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge.
| 1 | ■ Myōkō Haneuma Line | for Jōetsumyōkō, Takada, and Naoetsu |
| 2 | ■ Kita-Shinano Line | for Toyono and Nagano |
| 3 | ■ Myōkō Haneuma Line | for Jōetsu-Myōkō, Takada, and Naoetsu |
| « | Service | » | ||
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| Kita-Shinano Line | ||||
| Kurohime | Local | Terminus | ||
| Myōkō Haneuma Line | ||||
| Terminus | Local | Sekiyama | ||
The station opened on 1 May 1888, named Taguchi Station (田口駅).[3] It was renamed Myōkō-Kōgen Station on 1 October 1969.[3] With the privatizationofJNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).[3]
From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from NaganotoKanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.[2] From this date, Myōkō-Kōgen Station became a boundary station between the Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line of Nagano Prefecture to the south and the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Myōkō Haneuma Line of Niigata Prefecture to the north.[2]
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 282 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[4]
National Route 18
