Shin-Shimonoseki Station

Railway station in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Shin-Shimonoseki Station

新下関駅

Shin-Shimonoseki Station East exit

General information
Location| 1-11-1 Akineminami-machi, Shimonoseki-shi, Yamaguchi-ken 751-0872
Japan
Coordinates| 34°0′20.5″N 130°56′55.7″E﻿ / ﻿34.005694°N 130.948806°E﻿ / 34.005694; 130.948806
Owned by|  West Japan Railway Company
Operated by|

West Japan Railway Company

Japan Freight Railway Company

Line(s)|

* San'yō Shinkansen
*      San'yō Line

Distance| 1,088.7 km (676.5 miles) from Tokyo
Platforms| 4 side + 1 island platforms
Connections|

* Bus stop

Construction
Structure type| Elevated (Shinkansen)
At grade (Conventional line)
Accessible| Yes
Other information
Status| Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi)
Website| Official website
History
Opened| 27 May 1901 (1901-05-27)
Previous names| Ichinomiya (to 1916),
Nagato-Ichinomiya (to 1975)
Passengers
2020| 3515 daily (boarding only)
Services
| Preceding station  |  JR West | Following station

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Kokura

towards Hakata

|  | San'yō Shinkansen

Sakura

|  | Shin-Yamaguchi

towards Shin-Ōsaka

| San'yō Shinkansen

Hikari

Kokura

towards Hakata or Hakataminami

|  | San'yō Shinkansen

Kodama

|  | Asa

towards Shin-Ōsaka

Location

Shin-Shimonoseki Station

Location within Yamaguchi Prefecture

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Shin-Shimonoseki Station

Shin-Shimonoseki Station (Japan)

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Shin-Shimonoseki Station (新下関駅, Shin-Shimonoseki-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of  Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).[1] It is also a freight depot for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight)

## Lines

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Shin-Shimonoseki Station is served by the San'yō Shinkansen and is 536.1 kilometers from Shin-Osaka and 1088.7 km from Tokyo. It is also served San'yō Main Line, and is located 520.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kobe and is the southern terminus of the 85.1 kilometer Fukuen Line to Miyoshi.

## Station layout

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The San'yō Shinkansen has one island platform and one side platform with a prepared track layer and two through tracks without platforms. These tracks are elevated. The San'yō Main Line has two side platforms and one siding track without platform on the ground level, with the tracks at a right angle to the elevated Shinkansen tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

### Platforms

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1, 2 | ■  San'yō Shinkansen | for Kokura and Hakata

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3 | ■  San'yō Shinkansen | for Hiroshima, Shin-Osaka and Tokyo
4 | ■

San'yō Line

| for Asa and Shin-Yamaguchi
6 | ■

San'yō Line

| for Shimonoseki

Note: Track 5 has no platform.

## History

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Shin-Shimonoseki Station opened on 27 May 1901 as Ichinomiya Station (一ノ宮駅) when the line was extended from Asa Station to Bakan Station (present-day Shimonoseki Station) The San'yō Railway was railway nationalized in 1906 and the line renamed the San'yō Main Line in 1909. The station was renamed Nagato Ichinomiya Station (長門一宮駅) on 1 January 1916. The station was moved to its present location on 19 November 1928, per a route change of the San'yō Main Line between Chōfu and Shimonoseki. The Shinkansen began operations on 10 March 1975 and the station was renamed to its present name. With the privatization of the Japan National Railway (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan railway Company (JR West).

## Passenger statistics

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In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 3515 passengers daily.[2]

## Surrounding area

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* Shimonoseki City Hall Katsuyama Branch
* University of East Asia
* Shimonoseki International High School
* Shimonoseki Municipal Katsuyama Junior High School
* Sumiyoshi Shrine (Shimonoseki)

## See also

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* List of railway stations in Japan

## References

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1. ^ Kawashima, Reizo (2012). 山陽・山陰ライン 全線・全駅・全配線 第6巻 広島東部・呉エリア [Sanyo/Sanin Line - All Lines, All Stations 6 east Hiroshima/Kure Area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. ISBN 978-4-06-295155-5.
2. ^ Yamaguchi Prefecture Statistical Yearbook

## External links

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Media related to Shin-Shimonoseki Station at Wikimedia Commons

* JR West Station information (JR West) (in Japanese)

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Stations of the San'yō Shinkansen

* (for Tokyo<<) Shin-Ōsaka
* Shin-Kobe
* Nishi-Akashi
* Himeji
* Aioi
* Okayama
* Shin-Kurashiki
* Fukuyama
* Shin-Onomichi
* Mihara
* Higashi-Hiroshima
* Hiroshima
* Shin-Iwakuni
* Tokuyama
* Shin-Yamaguchi
* Asa
* Shin-Shimonoseki
* Kokura
* Hakata (>>for Kagoshima-Chūō, Hakataminami)

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Stations of the JR San'yō Line (Tokuyama \- Moji)

* (to Hiroshima <<)
* Tokuyama
* Shinnan-yō
* Fukugawa
* Heta
* Tonomi
* Hōfu Freight Terminal
* Hōfu
* Daidō
* Yotsutsuji
* Shin-Yamaguchi
* Kagawa
* Hon-Yura
* Kotō
* Ube
* Onoda
* Asa
* Habu
* Ozuki
* Chōfu
* Shin-Shimonoseki
* Hatabu
* Shimonoseki
* Moji

Freight Branch Line (Abandoned in 1942) : Shimonoseki \- Shimonosekikō
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