Nagahara Station - Nagahama

If you come to this station, it's almost like you're in Hokuriku. Anyway, it's a great word if the surrounding countryside is full compared to the scale of the station. I think it's very nice to have a taste.

This is the checkpoint of Biwaichi. Restrooms, benches and vending machines made it easy to take a break.

A mountain hut-like station building may match the surrounding landscape. The quiet atmosphere of Hubei makes you feel calm.

On the Kosei Line, this station used to be the end point of ordinary trains, and after passing here, there was an atmosphere of Hokuriku, and conversely, from here, Kansai. The station itself is a station where the existence of trains ending here is strange. It is very peaceful and there are few shops other than public facilities. A station that makes you feel the journey of a long-distance train to the honor trains that pass through daringly.

JR staff are absent and can only use traffic IC cards. Nishi-Asai general service in the station building was kinder, told that I came to visit my father's tomb and sightseeing and heard advice such as routes. The tourist information hand-written by the local elementary school students who were placed in the waiting room on which the red cross group produced a cushion was very helpful and used the bicycle. It was a quaint station in the country.

The station building has a log house style and is familiar with the surrounding atmosphere! There are Nishi Asai Sports Plaza Gymnasium, Nagahara Elementary School, Nagahama City Hospital Nagahara Clinic, JR Nagahara Station Community Coty etc. in the vicinity. When there was a dead section between here and Omi Shiotsu, the new rapid train of the 8-car train that goes directly from the Kyoto direction to the Kosai line was turning back at this station. Since 2006, when the dead section was moved between Tsuruga and Minamiimajo, the new 12-car rapid train from Kyoto was separated from the rear 8 by Omi Imazu, and 4 cars were taken to Omi Shiotsu and Tsuruga. 8 trains of the train will get to this station. Because the number of trains is small, I feel lonely everywhere. I hope the area around the station is more active!

Nagahara Station is a station on the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Kosei Line, located in Ourahabe, Nishiazai-cho, Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture. The station number is JR-B11. Overview Located at the northernmost tip of the Urban Network area. It is 7.1 km away from Makino Station, which is next to the west, and the distance between stations is the longest on the Kosei Line. Previously, due to the difference in electrification method, the number of regular trains going from this station to Omi-Shiotsu was small, but since the DC switching work to Tsuruga station (Fukui prefecture) was completed, the special rapid service was completed on October 21, 2006. The number of direct trains centered around Fukui has increased. The trains that go ahead of this station are 2- and 4-car trains, and the 6- and 8-car trains return at this station. As a general rule, test-run trains from the Amirai General Vehicle Station and the Fukida Factory (currently the Fukida General Vehicle Station), including new rolling stock, are also turned back at this station. The 323 series has actually entered this station for the purpose of test run. In addition, the 201 series was introduced as a regular train for a period of 2000. The station name was "Nagahara", which was a tentative name at the time of construction, but the local request was "Oku Biwako". The reason for requesting this name is to preserve the old village consciousness due to the merger of Nagahara Village and Shiotsu Village, and to be in the limelight as a new tourist destination as the Okubiwako Parkway and its related projects that are being constructed nearby. there were. history July 20, 1974 (Showa 49) --Yamashina Station on the Kosei Line of the Japanese National Railways --Opened at the same time as the opening of the entire line between Omi-Shiotsu Station [1]. April 1, 1987-Becomes a JR West station due to the privatization of the JNR division [1]. April 2000-The new station building is completed. October 26, 2003-DC electrification work on the Hokuriku Main Line and Kosei Line will begin. October 21, 2006 --This station due to the opening of DC conversion to Tsuruga station --The number of flights between Omi-Shiotsu station and Tsuruga station has been greatly increased [1]. The IC card "ICOCA" can be used. July 1, 2009-Urban Network Common to all stations, this station is completely non-smoking throughout the day (Kosei Line is up to this station, Omi-Shiotsu station is not applicable). March 17, 2018-Station numbering has been introduced and started to be used. Station structure It is an above-ground station with two island platforms and four lines, but the appearance is similar to an elevated station because the platform is on the embankment. It is a simple consignment station managed by Katata Station. A restroom, a simple automatic ticket gate for transportation iC cards, a boarding station certificate issuer, etc. are installed in the station yard. It used to be an unmanned station like Echizen Hanado Station (station staff were dispatched depending on the time of day), but in April 2000 it was named "Koti (meaning" hometown "in Koti Finnish)". A log house-like station building with a community house was built, and since then it has become a simple consignment station. As for the ticket, the ticket is a receipt by a portable ticketing machine, and the commuter pass is a supplementary ticket with handwritten and rubber stamps (both are handled by Omi Imazu station of the district station), so it passes through a general automatic ticket gate. It is not possible. The outer 2 lines (Platforms 1 and 4) are the main line, and the inner 2 lines (Platforms 2 and 3) are shunting lines, but there is no waiting for passage at this station. Only one down train using platform 2 and one up train using platform 3 are set per day. Platform 3 was suspended from October 21, 2006 to March 17, 2007, but after the timetable revision on the following 18th, only one regular train in the evening will stop. became. All trains bound for Omi Imazu and Kyoto, which depart from this station, use Platform 2. Diamond During the daytime hours, only the special rapid service on both the upper and lower lines stops once an hour. There is also a return train at this station in the morning and evening. In particular, the latter has been set up mainly for trains from the Kyoto area until October 20, 2006 since its opening, but it has decreased sharply due to the conversion of direct current between this station and Tsuruga station in the previous section. Until March 14, 2008, there was a rapid train bound for Osaka on weekdays (the Kosei Line section is usually a rapid train between Kyoto Station and Osaka Station). In addition, one special rapid service for Kyoto / Osaka, which is the first train from this station, is set in the morning. Around the station Nagahama City Hall Nishi-Asai Branch Nagahama City Nagahara Elementary School Nishi-Asai Sports Plaza Gymnasium Oura River National highway No. 303 Bus route Nishi-Asai Community Bus (Outing Wagon) Next station West Japan Railway Company B Kosei Line ■ Special Rapid Service ・ ■ Rapid Service ・ ■ Normal Makino Station (JR-B12) --Nagahara Station (JR-B11) --Omi-Shiotsu Station (JR-B10)

I visited Nagahara station. There is also Nishi-Asai Town Hall near Nagahara Station, which can be seen as the center of Nishi-Asai Town. However, there are few shops in the area. There are a few beauty salons. The parking lot at the station is large. It seems to be free. With the enforcement of the town-village system in 1887, it was established with the areas of Tsukiide-mura, Hatabe-mura, Yamada-mura, Koyama-mura, Oura-mura, Sugawara-mura, Sho-mura, Naka-mura, Yamamon-mura, and Kuroyama-mura. Due to the enforcement of the county system in 1890, Ika-gun was re-established in the areas of Ika-gun and Nishi-Asai-gun, and Nishi-Asai-gun disappeared. In 1955, Nagahara Village and Shiotsu Village merged to form Nishi-Asai Village. In 1971, Nishi-Asai Village became Nishi-Asai Town. In 2010, Nishi-Asai Town was incorporated into Nagahama City. Nagahara Station is in the name of Oura, but as the name suggests, Oura is a port town. Even in Oura, the modest but lively place is near Lake Biwa, and Nagahara Station is a little inland. In other words, Nagahara Station is located in Oura, the center of the former Nagahara Village, but not in the center of the former Oura Village. Oura was a place where the Kaga domain used to fly during the Edo period. Hundreds of thousands of Kaga Hyakumangoku rice were transported by land from Hokuriku to Oura, then carried by ship from Oura to Otsu, and then by land to Osaka, where they were priced and scattered all over the country. .. Since it is located in the former Nagahara village, it seems to have become Nagahara station. The locals requested "Oku Biwako Station", but it became Nagahara Station. Omi-Shiotsu Station on the Hokuriku Main Line is located in the former Shiotsu Village, which formed Nishiazai Town together with the former Nagahara Village. Shiotsu Station is not located in Shiotsu Naka or Shiotsu Beach, which was the center of the former Shiotsu Village, but is installed in excess. Although it is located in the same Nishi-Asai town, Nagahara station is a station on the Kosei line, and Omi-Shiotsu station is a station on the Hokuriku main line. In terms of roads, Shiozu is close to Hokkoku Highway and National Highway No. 8, and Nagahara is close to Nishi-Omi Road and National Highway 161. This area is actually a transportation hub. Oura is "Kohoku" because it is in Ika-gun, but the neighboring Makino town is Takashima-gun and "Kosai". As mentioned above, it is a rambling that I thought about at Nagahara station like a mountain lodge.