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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Hikone Station
Hikone Station (彦根駅, Hikone-eki) is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of Hikone, Shiga, Japan. It is operated jointly by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and the private railway operator Ohmi Railway.

Lines

Hikone Station is served by the Biwako Line portion of the JR Tōkaidō Main Line, and is 6.0 kilometers from Maibara and 451.9 kilometers from Tokyo. It is also a station on the Ohmi Railway Main Line and is 5.8 kilometers from the starting point of that line at Maibara.

Layout

The JR Station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks. Both platforms are connected to the ticket gate on the bridge over the tracks. The east end of the bridge, on the ground, is the Ohmi Railway station wishbone island platform. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platform

1 ■ Biwako Line for Maibara, Nagahama and Ōgaki
2 ■ Biwako Line for Kusatsu and Kyoto


1 ■ Ohmi Railway Main Line for Taga Taisha-mae, Yōkaichi, Kibukawa, and Ōmi-Hachiman
2 ■ Ohmi Railway Main Line for Toriimoto and Maibara

Adjacent stations

« Service »
JR West Tokaido Main Line (Biwako Line)
Limited Express "Hida": Does not stop at this station
Maibara   Special Rapid Service   Notogawa
Maibara   Local (Rapid service when running on the JR Kyoto Line)   Minami-Hikone
Ohmi Railway Main Line
Toriimoto   Rapid   Yōkaichi
Toriimoto   Local   Hikone-Serikawa

History

The station opened on 1 July 1889 as a station for passengers and cargo on the Japanese Government Railway (JGR) Tōkaidō Line, which became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The Ohmi Railway opened on 11 June 1898. Freight operations were discontinued in November 1986. The station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) on 1 April 1987 due to the privatization of JNR.

Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 with Hikone being assigned station number JR-A13.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR station was used by an average of 10,489 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). During the same period, the Ohmi Railway portion of the station was used by 1,371 passengers daily (boarding passengers only)

Surrounding area

See also