Zenkōji Station

Zenkōji Station 善光寺駅
JR Zenkōji Station, January 2006
Location	Zenkōji 1-chome, Kōfu, Yamanashi （山梨県甲府市善光寺一丁目） Japan
Coordinates	35°39′36.14″N 138°35′21.07″E / 35.6600389°N 138.5891861°E / 35.6600389; 138.5891861
Operated by	JR Central
Line(s)	Minobu Line
History
Opened	1928
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	350 daily

Zenkōji Station (善光寺駅, Zenkōji-eki) is a railway station on the Minobu Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The station is located 86.3 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Minobu Line at Fuji Station.

History

Zenkōji Station was opened on March 30, 1928 as a signal stop on the Fuji-Minobu Line. It was elevated to a full station when operations were consigned to the government on October 1, 1938. The line came under control of the Japanese Government Railways on May 1, 1941. The JGR became the JNR (Japan National Railway) after World War II. All freight operations were discontinued on November 1, 1960. The station has been unattended since April 10 1983. Along with the division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the Central Japan Railway Company.

Lines

• Central Japan Railway Company
  • Minobu Line

Layout

Zenkōji Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. There is no station building, but only a rain shelter on the platform, since the station building burned down in 1983.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

External links

• (Japanese) Minobu Line station information