is operated by JR West on the Gantoku Line

Gantoku Line

The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company in western Japan connecting Iwakuni Station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Kushigahama Station in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture....

 in Shūnan, Yamaguchi

Shunan, Yamaguchi

is a city located in east central Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.The city was founded on April 21, 2003, merging two former cities, Tokuyama and Shinnan'yō and two towns, Kano and Kumage....

. It is located in the Kumage part of Shūnan, and the Kumage District Shūnan City Branch Office is nearby.

History

• March 28, 1934: Station opens
• April 1, 1987: Station operation is taken over by JR West after privatization of 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...
  
  

Layout

The station has two tracks, with two 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...

s on either side of the station, connected by an overpass at the south end of the station. On the platform for trains bound for Iwakuni, there is a statue of a hooded crane

Hooded Crane

The Hooded Crane, Grus monacha is a small, dark crane. It has a grey body. The top of the neck and head is white, except for a patch of bare red skin above the eye...

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Platforms

Adjacent stations

West Japan Railway (JR West)

External links

Takamizu Station (JR West) Shūnan City