岩舟

Iwafune Station

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Iwafune is a railway station in Tokyo.

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1889 10月10日

It opened as Iwafune Station on the Ryomo Railway.

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両毛鉄道の岩船駅(いわふねえき)として開業。

1897 1月1日

It was transferred to Nippon Railway.

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日本鉄道に譲渡。

1902 3月1日

It was renamed Iwafune Station.

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岩舟駅に改称。

1906 11月1日

The Nippon Railway was nationalized and transferred to the government railway.

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日本鉄道国有化。官設鉄道に移管。

1949 6月1日

It became part of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) with the establishment of the public corporation Japanese National Railways.

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公共企業体日本国有鉄道(国鉄)発足に伴い、その所属となる。

1969 10月1日

Freight handling was abolished.

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貨物扱い廃止。

1984 2月1日

Freight handling was abolished.

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荷物扱い廃止。

1985 3月14日

The station was unmanned, and afterwards became a station with special ticket gates manned by personnel from the Crew Management Center until around 1990.

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無人化。以降1990年ごろまで要員機動センター職員による特別改札実施駅となる。

1987 4月1日

With the privatization of JNR, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

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国鉄分割民営化により、東日本旅客鉄道(JR東日本)の駅となる。

2001 11月18日

The IC card Suica service began operation.

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ICカードSuica供用開始。

2003 12月1日

Reverted to unmanned operation.

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再度無人化。

2006 3月30日

The station building reconstruction was completed, with the ticket counter and office section being removed.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

駅舎改築完成。窓口・事務室部分を撤去。

Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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栃木 · 小山
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佐野 · 桐生 · 高崎
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What train lines connect at Iwafune Station?

Iwafune Station is served by Ryōmō Line.