Nishi-Nyūzen Station

Railway station in Nyūzen, Toyama Prefecture, Japan

36°55′49″N 137°27′33″E / 36.9303°N 137.4593°E / 36.9303; 137.4593Operated by

Ainokaze Toyama RailwayLine(s)■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway LineDistance81.6 km from KurikaraPlatforms2 side platformsTracks2Other informationStatusUnstaffedWebsiteOfficial websiteHistoryOpened1 July 1960 (1960-07-01)PassengersFY2015229 daily

Location
Nishi-Nyūzen Station Location within Japan

Nishi-Nyūzen Station (西入善駅, Nishi-Nyūzen-eki, lit. "West Nyūzen Station") is a railway station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line in the town of Nyūzen, Toyama, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Ainokaze Toyama Railway.

Lines

Nishi-Nyūzen Station is served by the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line and is 81.6 kilometres from the starting point of the line at Kurikara.

Station layout

Nyūzen Station has two opposed ground-level side platforms connected by a footbridge. The station is unattended.

Platforms

1	■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line	for Toyama and Kanazawa
2	■ Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line	for Tomari and Itoigawa

History

Nishi-Nyūzen Station was opened on 1 July 1960. From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the former Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.^[1] From this date, Nishi-Nyūzen Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Ainokaze Toyama Railway.

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line
Ikuji		Local	Nyūzen

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 229 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[2]

Surrounding area

National Route 8

References

^ しなの鉄道（株）、えちごトキめき鉄道（株）、あいの風とやま鉄道（株）及びＩＲいしかわ鉄道（株）申請の第一種鉄道事業許可について [Details of railway business approval for Shinano Railway, Echigo Tokimeki Railway Company, Ainokaze Toyama Railway, and IR Ishikawa Railway]. News release (in Japanese). Japan: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
^ 10-1 あいの風とやま鉄道各駅旅客輸送状況（1日平均）） (in Japanese). Japan: Toyama Prefectural Office. 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nishi-Nyūzen Station.

Official website(in Japanese)

Stations of the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line and related lines

Hokuriku Main Line

Biwako Line	(for Hikone and Kyoto<<)(for Gifu and Nagoya<<) Maibara Sakata Tamura Nagahama (for Torahime>>)	A
Hokuriku Line	(for Tamura<<) Nagahama Torahime Kawake Takatsuki Kinomoto Yogo - (for Ōmi-Imazu and Kyōto<<) Ōmi-Shiotsu Shin-Hikida Tsuruga	A