Chibiki Station

Chibiki Station (千曳駅, Chibiki-eki) is a railway station located in the town of Tōhoku in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The station has been operating since 1910. Since 2010, the station has been operated by the Aoimori Railway Company, a third sector, regional rail operator. It is the least busy railway station along the Aoimori Railway. Passenger trains serve the station 17 hours a day; trains depart from the station roughly once an hour.

Chibiki Station

千曳駅
Regional rail station
Chibiki Station in March 2021
General information
LocationTaihei, Tōhoku, Kamikita District, Aomori Prefecture 039-2675
Japan
Coordinates40°48′17.32″N 141°9′10.14″E
Operated by Aoimori Railway
Line(s)■ Aoimori Railway Line
Distance70.9 km from Aomori
Platforms2 side platforms
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Other information
StatusUnstaffed
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened15 November 1910 (1910-11-15)
Services
Preceding station Aoimori Railway Following station
Ottomo
towards Metoki
 Aoimori Railway Line Noheji
towards Aomori
Location
Chibiki Station is located in Aomori Prefecture
Chibiki Station
Chibiki Station
Location within Aomori Prefecture
Chibiki Station is located in Japan
Chibiki Station
Chibiki Station
Chibiki Station (Japan)

Location

Chibiki Station is located beneath an underpass of Aomori Prefecture Route 8. The station is located in a very rural setting with no houses or buildings within walking distance. It is 70.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Aomori Station. It is 688.2 kilometers from Tokyo. The stations adjacent to Chibiki Station along the Aoimori Railway Line are Ottomo Station and Noheji Station.[1]

Station layout

Chibiki Station has two opposed side platforms connected by a road overpass that serve two tracks. There is no station building and the platforms are not numbered. The station is unattended.

Platforms
east ■ Aoimori Railway Line for Misawa and Aomori
west ■ Aoimori Railway Line for Hachinohe

History

Chibiki Station was opened on 15 November 1910 as a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR). On 20 October 1962, it became a joint station with the now defunct Nanbu Jūkan Railway. On 5 August 1968, the routing of the Tōhoku Main Line slightly changed, and a new station was built, with the original Chibiki Station renamed Nishi-Chibiki Station (西千曳駅) serving only the Nanbu Jūkan Railway. Regularly scheduled freight services were also discontinued with the move. With the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010.[2]

Services
An Aomori-bound Aoimori 701 series set departing from Chibiki Station

The station is only served by trains operating on a local service between Aomori and Hachinohe. It is skipped by rapid express trains, including the Shimokita service operated jointly by JR East and the Aoimori Railway between Aomori and Ōminato and the 560M train operated jointly by the Aoimori Railway and the Iwate Galaxy Railway between Aomori and Morioka. Passenger trains serve Chibiki Station just under 17 hours a day from 6:23 am to 11:11 pm. Trains depart from the station at an approximate hourly basis.[3] In 2018, a daily average of 2 passengers boarded trains at Chibiki Station.[4] In that year Chibiki Station was the least busy out of all the stations on the entire Aoimori Railway Line.[4]

See also

References
  1. "路線図" [Route map] (in Japanese). Aoimori Railway Co.,Ltd. 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  2. "青い森鉄道線について" [About the Aoimori Railway Line]. Aoimori Railway Co.,Ltd (in Japanese). 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  3. "青い森鉄道列車時刻表" [Aoimori Railway Train Timetable] (PDF) (in Japanese). Aoimori Railway Co.,Ltd. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  4. "千曳駅（青い森鉄道）の乗降客数の統計" [Passenger statistics of Chibiki Station]. statresearch (in Japanese). 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
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