Ōmi-Imazu Station

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Ōmi-Imazu Station (近江今津駅, Ōmi-Imazu Eki^?) is a railway station on the Kosei Line of West Japan Railway Company located in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

As a key stations of the Kosei Line, the station with a yard on its south side originates and terminates many trains. The station has two island platforms with two tracks each capable of serving 12-car trains, as well as sidetracks for passing trains.

Previously most of the Special Rapid Service trains from the JR Kyoto Line turned at this station until 2006 when most Special Rapid Service trains were extended to Tsuruga Station. As of 2007 there is only one train in morning turns at the station.

The extension of the services to the north section required coupling and releasing of carriages at this station since platforms of Ōmi-Shiotsu Station and beyond can only handle 4-car trains. In order to facilitate these works, a signal was newly added to the track 2 of the station.

Contents 1 Station structure 1.1 Train platforms 2 Stations next to Ōmi-Imazu 3 External links

[edit] Station structure

Elevated station with two island platforms with four tracks. The station provides the on-line ticket reservation service. Since automatic ticket gates have not been installed, ICOCA and other IC cards need to be processed at a manned window.

[edit] Train platforms

1	■Kosei Line	for Nagahara, Ōmi-Shiotsu and Tsuruga (only a part of local trains)
	■Limited Express "Raicho", "Thunderbird"	for Fukui, Kanazawa and Toyama
2	■Kosei Line	for Nagahara, Ōmi-Shiotsu and Tsuruga
	■Kosei Line	for Katata, Kyoto and Osaka
3	■Kosei Line	for Nagahara, Ōmi-Shiotsu and Tsuruga (only a part of local trains)
	■Kosei Line	for Katata, Kyoto and Osaka (only a part of local trains)
4	■Kosei Line	for Katata, Kyoto and Osaka (only a part of special rapid service and local trains)
	■Limited Express "Raicho", "Thunderbird"	for Kyoto and Osaka

[edit] Stations next to Ōmi-Imazu

«		Service	»
West Japan Railway Company Kosei Line
Shin-Asahi		Special Rapid Service		Ōmi-Nakashō
Shin-Asahi		Rapid Servce		Ōmi-Nakashō
Shin-Asahi		Local		Ōmi-Nakashō

[edit] External links

• JRおでかけネット 近江今津駅

v • d • e Stations of the Kosei Line (for Osaka<< - Kyoto –) Yamashina – Ōtsukyō – Karasaki – Hieizan Sakamoto – Ogoto-onsen – Katata – Ono – Wani – Hōrai – Shiga – Hira – Ōmi-Maiko – Kita-Komatsu – Ōmi-Takashima – Adogawa – Shin-Asahi – Ōmi-Imazu – Ōmi-Nakashō – Makino – Nagahara – Ōmi-Shiotsu (>> Hokuriku Line for Tsuruga)