Nagaizumi-Nameri Station
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is a railway station
on the Gotemba Line of Central Japan Railway Company
(JR Tōkai) located in Nagaizumi
, Shizuoka Prefecture
, Japan
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serving traffic in both directions. As part of the Shizuoka Cancer Center medical complex, the station has a Barrier-free design unusual for Japanese stations, with slopes for wheelchair
access, elevator
s and moving walkway
s. It has automated ticket machine
s and TOICA
automated turnstile
s, but is an unmanned station.
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...
on the Gotemba Line of Central Japan Railway Company
Central Japan Railway Company
The is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as . Its headquarters are located in the JR Central Towers in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.The company's operational hub is Nagoya Station...
(JR Tōkai) located in Nagaizumi
Nagaizumi, Shizuoka
is a town located in Suntō District, Shizuoka, Japan. As of 2009, the town has an estimated population of 39,865 and a density of 1,500 persons per km². The total area is 26.51 km².-Geography:...
, Shizuoka Prefecture
Shizuoka Prefecture
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
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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History
Nagaizumi-Nameri Station was opened on September 7, 2002 as part of the Shizuoka Cancer Center.Station layout
Nagaizumi-Nameri Station has a single side platformSide 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 traffic in both directions. As part of the Shizuoka Cancer Center medical complex, the station has a Barrier-free design unusual for Japanese stations, with slopes for wheelchair
Wheelchair
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking. The device comes in variations where it is propelled by motors or by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand. Often there are handles behind the seat for someone else to do the pushing...
access, elevator
Elevator
An elevator is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building, vessel or other structures...
s and moving walkway
Moving walkway
A moving walkway or moving sidewalk is a slow moving conveyor mechanism that transports people, across a horizontal...
s. It has automated ticket machine
Ticket machine
A ticket machine, also known as a ticket vending machine , is a vending machine that produces tickets. For instance, ticket machines dispense train tickets at railway stations and tram tickets at some tram stops and in some trams...
s and TOICA
TOICA
is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for JR Central railway network which was introduced in the Chūkyō Area of Japan on November 25, 2006.The name is an acronym for Tōkai IC Card...
automated turnstile
Turnstile
A turnstile, also called a baffle gate, is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time. It can also be made so as to enforce one-way traffic of people, and in addition, it can restrict passage only to people who insert a coin, a ticket, a pass, or similar...
s, but is an unmanned station.