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Ugo Ushijima Station
羽後牛島駅 | |||||||||||
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Ugo Ushijima Station in June 2018
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| Location | 1-4-17, Ushijima-Nishi, Akita-shi, Akita-ken, 010-0063 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°41′46.16″N 140°6′58.43″E / 39.6961556°N 140.1162306°E / 39.6961556; 140.1162306 | ||||||||||
| Operated by |  JR East | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Uetsu Main Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 269.0 kilometers from Niitsu | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | July 31, 1921 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| FY2018 | 921 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Ugo-Ushijima Station (羽後牛島駅, Ugo-Ushijima eki) is a railway station in the city of Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan, operated by JR East.
Ugo-Ushijima Station is served by the Uetsu Main Line, and is located 269.0 kilometres (167.1 mi) from the terminus of the line at Niitsu Station.
The station has one island platform connected to the station building by an underground passage The station is staffed and has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
| 1 | ■ Uetsu Main Line | for Akita |
| 2 | ■ Uetsu Main Line | for Sakata and Tsuruoka |
Ugo-Ushijima Station opened on July 31, 1921 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Rikuusai Line, serving the town of Ushijima, Akita. It was switched to the control of the JGR Uetsu Main Line on April 20, 1924. The current station building was completed in June 1944. The JGR became the JNR (Japan National Railway) after World War II. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the joint control of the East Japan Railway Company and the Japan Freight Railway Company. All freight operations were suspended after April 1, 2006.
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 760 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | Daily average |
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| 2000 | 877[2] |
| 2005 | 791[3] |
| 2010 | 734[4] |
| 2015 | 670[5] |
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