Ōmi Station (Niigata)

Location
	Ōmi Station Location within Japan

Ōmi Station

青海駅
Ōmi Station; 青海駅
	Ōmi Station in September 2011
General information
Location	853 Ōmi, Itoigawa-shi, Niigata-ken 949-0305; Japan
Coordinates	37°01′22″N 137°47′40″E / 37.02278°N 137.79444°E
Operated by	Echigo Tokimeki Railway
Line(s)	■ Nihonkai Hisui Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Status	Staffed
History
Opened	16 December 1912
Passengers
FY2017	150 daily
Location
Location
	Ōmi Station Location within Japan

Ōmi Station (青海駅, Ōmi-eki) is a railway station in the city of Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan, operated by Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

Lines

Ōmi Station is served by the Nihonkai Hisui Line, and is 13.9 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Ichiburi and 308.4 kilometers from Maibara Station.

Station layout

The station consists of two island platforms with a station building. However, only one of the platforms is in normal use.

Platforms

1	■ Nihonkai Hisui Line	for Naoetsu, Itoigawa
2	■ Nihonkai Hisui Line	for Tomari, Toyama
3, 4	■ Nihonkai Hisui Line	(siding)

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Nihonkai Hisui Line
Oyashirazu		Local	Itoigawa

History

The station opened on 16 December 1912, as part of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR, JNR after 1949). 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.^[1] From this date, Ōmi Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 150 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[2]

Surrounding area

Ōmi Post Office
Ōmi Elementary School
National Route 8

References

^ 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.
^ 平成29年度の乗車状況（平成29年4月1日～平成30年3月31日）［各駅の１日平均乗車人員 [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2017)] (in Japanese). Japan: Echigo Tokimeki Railway Company. 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.