is a railway station on the JR East

East Japan Railway Company

is 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....

 Gonō Line

Gono Line

The is a railway line in Japan linking Higashi-Noshiro Station in Akita Prefecture with Kawabe Station in Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of Honshū. The line stretches 147.2 km along the Sea of Japan coast with a total of 43 stations...

 located in the town of Fukaura

Fukaura, Aomori

is a town located in the Nishitsugaru District of Aomori Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan. As of 2009, the town had an estimated population of 9,917 and a density of 20.3 persons per km²...

, Aomori Prefecture

Aomori Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku Region. The capital is the city of Aomori.- History :Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Aomori prefecture was known as Mutsu Province....

, 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...

. It is 53.6 rail kilometers from the southern terminus

Terminal Station

Terminal Station is a 1953 film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of the love affair between an Italian man and an American woman. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Production:...

 of the Gonō Line at Higashi-Noshiro Station

Higashi-Noshiro Station

is a railway station on the JR East. It is located in Noshiro, Akita, Japan.-Station structure:* 2-way, 3-track, above-ground station.Platforms...

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History

Mutsu-Sawabe Station was opened on July 30, 1932 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways

Japanese Government Railways

The Japanese Government Railways was the national railway system directly operated by the central government of Japan until 1949. It is a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the Japan Railways Group.- Name :...

 (JGR). With the privatization

Privatization

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 of the Japanese National Railways

Japanese National Railways

, abbreviated or "JNR", was the national railway network of Japan from 1949 to 1987.-History:The term Kokuyū Tetsudō "state-owned railway" originally referred to a network of railway lines operated by nationalized companies under the control of the Railway Institute following the nationalization...

 (successor of JGR) on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East.

Station layout

Mutsu-Sawabe Station has a single 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...

 serving bidirectional traffic. The station is unattended, and is managed from Fukaura Station

Fukaura Station

is a railway station on the JR East Gonō Line located in the town of Fukaura, Aomori Prefecture Japan. It is 66.9 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Gonō Line at Higashi-Noshiro Station.-History:...

. The station building is of identical design to that of and .

Platforms

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Adjacent stations

External links

• JR East station information page