Izu-Nagaoka Station
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is a train station
Train station
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 of the Izuhakone Railway
Izuhakone Railway
The is a railway company in Kanagawa Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The company also operates excursion ships, and the group companies operate buses and taxis. The company has its roots in founded in 1893. Izuhakone Railway is a member of Seibu group...

’s Sunzu Line located in the city of Izunokuni
Izunokuni, Shizuoka
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, Shizuoka Prefecture
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is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.- History :Shizuoka prefecture was formed from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.The area was the home of the first Tokugawa Shogun...

, Japan
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. It is 11.4 rail kilometers from the line’s terminus
Terminal Station
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 at Mishima Station
Mishima Station
is an interchange railway station in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan for the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen of Central Japan Railway Company and was a freight terminal of the Japan Freight Railway Company...

. It is located in the former town of Nirayama
Nirayama, Shizuoka
was a town located in Tagata District, Shizuoka, Japan.On April 1, 2005 Nirayama was merged with the towns of Ōhito and Izunagaoka, both from Tagata District, to form the new city of Izunokuni....

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History

Izu-Nagaoka Station was opened on May 20, 1898 as as the terminal station for the first phase of construction of the Sunzu Line. The line was extended onwards to Ōhito
Ōhito Station
is a train station of the Izuhakone Railway’s Sunzu Line located in the city of Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is 16.6 rail kilometers from the line’s terminus at Mishima Station.- History :...

 on July 17, 1899. The station was given its present name on May 25, 1919. The station building was rebuilt in 1986.

Station layout

Izu-Nagaoka Station has one side platform
Side platform
A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

 and one island platform
Island platform
An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

connected to the station building by an overpass. However, only the island platform serving tracks 2 and 3 is in normal use for passenger traffic and is used for bidirectional traffic for both normal and express services. The station building is manned and has automatic ticket machines, a manned service counter and shops.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

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