Ōmura Station (Nagasaki)

Ōmura Station (大村駅, Ōmura-eki) is the major railway station in the city of Ōmura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Ōmura Line.[1][2]

Ōmura Station

大村駅
Ōmura Station in 2006
LocationJapan
Coordinates32°54′39″N 129°57′44″E
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s)■ Ōmura Line
Distance36.2 km from Haiki
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2 + 1 siding
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Disabled accessNo - platforms linked by footbridge
Other information
StatusStaffed ticket window (Midori no Madoguchi) (outsourced)
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened20 January 1898 (1898-01-20)
Passengers
FY20162,473 daily
Rank77th (among JR Kyushu stations)

Lines

The station is served by the Ōmura Line and is located 36.2 km from the starting point of the line at Haiki.[3] Besides the local services on the line, the Rapid Seaside Liner also stops at the station.[4]

Station layout

The station consists of two staggered side platforms serving two tracks. A siding branches off track 1. The station building is a timber building of traditional Japanese design which was built in 1918. It houses a waiting room, a kiosk, automatic ticket vending machines and a staffed ticket window. Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge.[2][3][5]

Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket window which is equipped with a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[6][7]

The station building also houses the facilities of a community radio station "FM Omura 76.3".[5][8]

Platforms
Tracks
1 ■Ōmura Line To Sasebo・Haiki・Huis Ten Bosch・Kawatana
2 ■Ōmura Line To Nagasaki・Isahaya

Adjacent stations
←Service→
Ōmura Line
Suwa Local Iwamatsu
JR Kyushu Rapid
Takematsu Seaside Liner Isahaya

History

The private Kyushu Railway, in building a line to Nagasaki, had opened a track from Tosu to Saga and Takeo (today Takeo-Onsen) by 5 May 1895 and Haiki by 10 July 1897. In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended south along the east coast of Ōmura Bay, with Ōmura opening as the new terminus on 20 January 1898. It became a through-station on 27 November that year when the track was further extended to Isahaya, Kikitsu and linking up with an earlier at Nagayo, achieving through-traffic to Urakami, then known as Nagasaki. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, track from Tosu through Haiki and Ōmura to Nagasaki was designated the Nagasaki Main Line. On 1 December 1934, another route along the coast of the Ariake Sea designated as the Nagasaki Main Line. The track from Haiki through Ōmura to Isahaya became designated as the Ōmura Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.[9][10]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 2,473 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 77th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[11]

Environs
  • Nagasaki Ken'ei Bus (Transportation Bureau of Nagasaki Prefecture) Ōmura bus terminal
  • Ōmura City Office
  • Nagasaki Airport - Change to a bus

See also

References
  1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. "大村" [Ōmura]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  3. Kawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第5巻 長崎 佐賀 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 5 Nagasaki Saga area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 36, 73. ISBN 9784062951647.
  4. "大村" [Ōmura]. JR Kyushu official station website. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  5. "大村線・大村駅に行ってきました" [I went to Ōmura Station Ōmura Line]. Ameblo.jp. 15 August 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2018. Blog entry with good photographic coverage of station facilities.
  6. "長崎支店内各駅" [Stations within the Nagasaki Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  7. "大村駅" [Ōmura Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 19 March 2018. See images of tickets sold.
  8. "What is FM Omura?". FM Omura website. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  9. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 222–3, 227. ISBN 4533029809.
  10. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 738. ISBN 4533029809.
  11. "駅別乗車人員上位300駅（平成28年度）" [Passengers embarking by station - Top 300 stations (Fiscal 2016)] (PDF). JR Kyushu. 31 July 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.


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