Doai Station

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Doai Station (土合駅, Doai Eki^?) is a railway station on the Joetsu Line of East Japan Railway Company, located in Minakami, Gunma, Japan.

The platform for the northbound trains (to Echigo-Yuzawa and Nagaoka) is located 70 meters under ground, in the middle of Shin-Shimizu Tunnel (13,490m). It takes 10 minutes to walk from the ticket gate to the platform. The other platform for the southbound trains (to Minakami) is at street level, above ground.

Contents 1 Station layout 1.1 Underground level 1.2 Ground level 2 Surroundings 3 History 4 Adjacent stations 5 See also

[edit] Station layout

[edit] Underground level

A side platform in the tunnel serves the northbound trains.

1

■Joetsu Line

for Echigo-Yuzawa, Urasa, Nagaoka, Niigata

[edit] Ground level

An island platform with one active and one dismantled tracks serves the southbound trains.

2

■Joetsu Line

for Minakami, Takasaki, Ueno

[edit] Surroundings

• Mount Tanigawa (one of the "100 famous mountains in Japan")

[edit] History

• September 1, 1931 : It was set up as a signal box with the opening to traffic of Jouetsu Line.
• December 19, 1936 : It became a railway station.
• September 27, 1967 : Shin-Shimizu tunnel opened, and Joetsu Line was double-trucked. The underground-level platform in this tunnel opened.

[edit] Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Yubiso		Joetsu Line		Tsuchitaru

v • d • e Stations of the JR Jōetsu Line Takasaki - Takasaki-Ton'yamachi - Ino - Shin-Maebashi - Gumma-Sōja - Yagihara - Shibukawa - Shikishima - Tsukuda - Iwamoto - Numata - Gokan - Kamimoku - Minakami - Yubiso - Doai - Tsuchitaru - Echigo-Nakazato - Iwappara-Ski-jō-mae - Echigo-Yuzawa - Ishiuchi - Ōsawa - Jōetsu Kokusai Ski-jō-mae - Shiozawa - Muikamachi - Itsukamachi - Urasa - Yairo - Koide - Echigo-Horinouchi - Echigo-Kawaguchi - Ojiya - Echigo-Takiya - Miyauchi( - Nagaoka)

[edit] See also

• Railway station layout
• Hikyō station