Yoshinoguchi Station - Gose

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It is located in Gose City, Nara Prefecture, and is served by the Kintetsu Yoshino Line and the JR West Wakayama Line. It is a shared station of both companies, but only JR West has jurisdiction. Therefore, there are no Kintetsu station staff. If you look at JR alone, there are station staff at directly managed stations, but there is no green window and no automatic ticket gates. There are automatic ticket vending machines, but they are not for the new mainstream green ticket vending machines these days, but for local lines. At the ground station, it has one side platform and two island platforms. A one-story station building is built adjacent to a one-sided platform, and is connected to the two island platforms by an underpass. There is no elevator installed. The one-sided platform is Line 1, which is the platform for Kintetsu Yoshino. Below, line 2 is for Kashiharajingu-mae / Abenobashi, line 3 is for JR Gojo / Wakayama, and lines 4 and 5 are for Doouji / Nara. Looking at the platforms of both companies separately, Kintetsu has two sides and two lines, and JR has two sides and three lines. Of these, lines 2 and 3 use island platforms separately for each company. For this reason, it is possible to cross-platform all day between Kintetsu Kashiharajingu-mae / Abenobashi and JR Gojo / Wakayama. However, when connecting between the two companies with an IC card, it is necessary to touch the IC card transfer ticket gate installed on the platform or in the underpass. Also, at this station, even if you only get on and off the JR line with an IC card, you need to touch the same transfer ticket gate. The number of departures and arrivals during the day is 3 per hour for Kintetsu, including limited express trains, and 1 per hour for JR trains only. Kintetsu also stops the sightseeing limited express "Blue Symphony". During the daytime, JR trains and one of Kintetsu's two regular trains per hour are connected in both directions.

It is a shared station of JR West and Kintetsu Railway, and is under the jurisdiction of JR West. All passenger trains stop at both JR and Kintetsu. It is a ground station with a single platform 1 side 1 line and an island platform 2 side 4 line, a total of 3 side 5 line, and there is still an old wooden station building. Of these, JR uses 2 sides and 3 lines, and Kintetsu uses 2 sides and 2 lines, but one side of the island platform is shared by JR and Kintetsu. Although it is under the jurisdiction of JR West, there is no green window. Kintetsu limited express sales can be purchased at automatic ticket vending machines. The time is written on the platform in front of Kashihara Jingu so that you can make a smooth transfer. The toilet is located at Platform 1, which is the platform for Yoshino on the Kintetsu side. The toilet is not clean. In the past, ekiben was sold at the platform in the middle, but it closed a few years ago. It is still on sale at Yanagiya, just outside the station.

It is a joint use station of JR West and Kintetsu, and is under the jurisdiction of JR West. All passenger trains stop. Compatible with ICOCA and PiTaPa transportation IC cards. Since it is a station under the jurisdiction of JR West, the feature of this station is that the station name of Kintetsu is also JR specification. Currently, ekiben is sold outside the ticket gates, but before May 2018, ekiben was sold inside the station, which is unusual for a station without a green window. The average number of passengers on JR in 2005 was 862, but in 2012 it decreased to 583, and the number of passengers on and off Kintetsu on November 8, 2005 was 2,187, while in November 2018. The number is decreasing year by year to 1327 on the 13th. The Gose City Community Bus (Himawari) departs from the station and can be used once for 100 yen (free for elementary school students and younger).

It is a connecting station between the JR Wakayama Line and the Kintetsu Yoshino Line, and JR West is in charge of managing the station. The exterior is a tasteful wooden station building. There are JR simple ticket vending machines and Kintetsu ticket vending machines, but there are also limited express ticket vending machines because limited express trains also stop. Although the gauges of both lines are the same, they are not connected.

Kintetsu, a simple consignment station of JR that is full of retro feeling from the station building to the toilet, does not even have a ticket vending machine. At the ticket gate exit, there is a sticker that warns you that this station is not Yoshino station and that you should not get on the train by mistake. At the connecting station of JR Wakayama Line and Kintetsu Yoshino Line, Kintetsu's Kashiharajingu-mae line and Wakayama Line's Wakayama. An announcement will be made on how to use the transportation IC card on the train. In addition, although there are exceptions, Kintetsu is also a train that can be connected to the operation schedule that matches the arrival and departure of the JR line, which has a small number of trains, and since both trains exchange trains at this station, there is no waiting time for JR Kintetsu. You can transfer smoothly.