Station

Yanagawa Kibonomori Koen-mae

やながわ希望の森公園前

Yanagawa Kibonomori Koen-mae
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Yanagawa Kibōnomori Kōen-mae Station opened on 1988-07-01 with the conversion of the former Marumori Line into the third-sector Abukuma Express. The station, 20.0 rail kilometres from the line's official starting point at Fukushima, is in Yanagawa-machi Kita-machikashira in the city of Date in Fukushima Prefecture. The station building was completed on 1989-07-01. After the suspension of services caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake on 2011-03-11, the station was destaffed administratively on 2011-04-01, with 2011-03-11 effectively its last day as a staffed station. In 2002 it was named one of the 100 representative stations of the Tōhoku region.

Notes

Written out in kana the station name is sixteen characters long, making it the fifth-longest station name in Japan; among railway stations alone it held the top spot until 1990, when Chōjagahama Shiosai Hamanasu Kōen-mae Station opened on the Kashima Rinkai line.

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