Sansai Station

Location
	Sansai Station Location within Nagano Prefecture Sansai Station Sansai Station (Japan)

Sansai Station

三才駅
Sansai Station; 三才駅
	South side of the station building in January 2010
General information
Location	2207 Sansai-Nenbutsuzuka, Nagano-shi, Nagano-ken 381-0081; Japan
Coordinates	36°41′12″N 138°14′39″E / 36.6867°N 138.2442°E
Elevation	345.1 meters
Operated by	Shinano Railway
Line(s)	■ Kita-Shinano Line
Distance	6.8 km from Nagano
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Status	Staffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	8 January 1958
Passengers
FY2014	1,424 daily
Services
Location
Location
	Sansai Station Location within Nagano Prefecture Sansai Station Sansai Station (Japan)

Sansai Station (三才駅, Sansai-eki) is a railway station on the Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line in the city of Nagano, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway^[1]

Lines

Sansai Station is served by the 37.3 km Kita-Shinano Line, and is 6.8 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Nagano Station.^[2] Some trains of the Iiyama Line continue past the nominal terminus of the line at Toyono Station and terminal at Nagano Station, stopping at this station en route.

Station layout

The station consists of two opposed side platforms serving two tracks.^[1] The platforms are connected by both a level crossing and an underground passage.

Platforms

1	■ Kita-Shinano Line	for Toyono and Myōkō-Kōgen
1	■ Iiyama Line	for Togari-Nozawaonsen, Tōkamachi, and Echigo-Kawaguchi
2	■ Kita-Shinano Line	for Nagano
2	■ Iiyama Line	for Nagano

History

The station opened on 8 January 1958.^[2] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).^[2]

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new Shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies.^[3] From this date, Sansai Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Shinano Railway.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,424 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[4]

Surrounding area

Seisen Jogakuin College

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Shinano Mainichi Shimbun (2011). Nagano Prefecture All Railway Stations, revised edition (長野県鉄道全駅増補改訂版) (in Japanese). Shinano Mainichi Shinbun Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 9784784071647.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR]. Vol. II. Japan: JTB. p. 579. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
^ Osano, Kagetoshi (March 2015). 　北陸新幹線並行在来線各社の姿 [Guide to companies operating conventional lines alongside the Hokuriku Shinkansen]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 44, no. 371. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 28–33.
^ 長野市統計書 8.運輸・通信 [Nagano City Statistics Section 8. Transportation - Communications] (in Japanese). Japan: Nagano City. 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2019.