Kakunodate Station
Encyclopedia
Kakunodate Station is a train station
located in Senboku
, Akita Prefecture
, Japan
.
residence, was selected to be one of the Hundred Stations of Tohoku.
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
located in Senboku
Senboku, Akita
is a city located in Akita, Japan.- The city of Semboku :Semboku was created on September 20, 2005 from the merger of Kakunodate, Tazawako, and Nishiki, all from Senboku District...
, Akita Prefecture
Akita Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku Region of northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Akita.- History :The area of Akita has been created from the ancient provinces of Dewa and Mutsu....
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Lines
- JR EastEast Japan Railway Companyis the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....
- Akita ShinkansenAkita ShinkansenThe is a Mini-shinkansen high-speed rail line in Japan. Serving the Kantō and Tōhoku Regions of the country, it links Tokyo and Akita in Akita prefecture with direct service. From Tokyo to Morioka in Iwate prefecture, it operates on the Tōhoku Shinkansen tracks. From there to Ōmagari, it uses the...
- Tazawako LineTazawako LineThe is a railway line connecting Morioka Station operated by East Japan Railway Company in Morioka, Iwate and Ōmagari Station in Daisen, Akita, Japan....
(a local line)
- Akita Shinkansen
- Akita Inland Rail Transport
- Akita Inland RailwayAkita Nairiku Jukan Railway Akita Nairiku LineThe is a Japanese railway line in Akita Prefecture, between Takanosu, Kitaakita and Kakunodate, Senboku. This is the only railway line operated by the . The third sector company took over two former Japanese National Railways lines in 1986, and a newly built line linked the two in 1989...
(a local line)
- Akita Inland Railway
History
- July 30, 1921: Station is opened
- November 1, 1970: Kakunodate Line is opened.
- March 22, 1997: Service on the Akita Shinkansen is started.
Honors
The station building, designed to resemble a samuraiSamurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
residence, was selected to be one of the Hundred Stations of Tohoku.