Mikawashima Station
Preceding station | ![]() | Following station | ||
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Nippori NPRJJ02 towards Shinagawa | Jōban Line Rapid | Minami-Senju JJ04 towards Toride | ||
Jōban Line Local-Futsuu | Minami-Senju JJ04 towards Sendai |
Mikawashima Station (三河島駅, Mikawashima-eki) is a railway station on the Jōban Line in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Mikawashima Station is served by the Jōban Line.
Station layout
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The station consists of a single island platform serving two tracks.
1 | JJ Jōban Line (Rapid) | for Nippori, Ueno JU Ueno-Tokyo Line for Tokyo and Shinagawa |
2 | JJ Jōban Line (Rapid) | for Kita-Senju, Kashiwa, Toride, Tsuchiura, Ishioka and Mito ■ Narita Line for Narita |
History
Mikawashima Station opened on 1 April 1905.[1]
Accident
On 3 May 1962, there was a crash between a freight train and two passenger trains which resulted in 160 deaths and 296 injuries. The crash occurred about 350 meters east of Mikawashima Station when an Ueno-bound passenger train (train number 2000H) crashed into the wreckage of a crash between a Toride-bound passenger train (2117H) and a Mito-bound freight train (number 287) as well as a crowd of evacuating passengers from 2117H.
Surrounding area
References
- ^ 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 103. ISBN 4-533-00503-9.
External links
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- Mikawashima Station (JR East) (in Japanese)
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- Ueno
- Nippori
- Mikawashima
- Minami-Senju
- Kita-Senju
- Matsudo
- Kashiwa
- Abiko
- Tennōdai
- Toride
- Fujishiro
- Ryūgasakishi
- Ushiku
- Hitachino-Ushiku
- Arakawaoki
- Tsuchiura
- Kandatsu
- Takahama
- Ishioka
- Hatori
- Iwama
- Tomobe
- Uchihara
- Akatsuka
- Kairakuen
- Mito
- Katsuta
- Sawa
- Tōkai
- Ōmika
- Hitachi-Taga
- Hitachi
- Ogitsu
- Jūō
- Takahagi
- Minami-Nakagō
- Isohara
- Ōtsukō
- Nakoso
- Ueda
- Izumi
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- Iwaki
- Kusano
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- Hisanohama
- Suetsugi
- Hirono
- J-Village
- Kido
- Tatsuta
- Tomioka
- Yonomori
- Ōno
- Futaba
- Namie
- Momouchi
- Odaka
- Iwaki-Ōta
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- Kashima
- Nittaki
- Sōma
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- Shinchi
- Sakamoto
- Yamashita
- Hamayoshida
- Watari
- Ōkuma
- Iwanuma
- (Tatekoshi
- Natori
- Minami-Sendai
- Taishidō
- Nagamachi
- Sendai via Tōhoku Main Line)
- Freight Line
- Tabata
- Mikawashima
- Minami-Senju
Stations served only by the Chiyoda Line through service local trains between Kita-Senju and Abiko are omitted.
35°44′01″N 139°46′38″E / 35.7336°N 139.7771°E / 35.7336; 139.7771