Yorii Station
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Yorii Station
寄居駅 |
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South entrance, June 2012
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| Location | Yorii, Yorii, Ōsato, Saitama （埼玉県大里郡寄居町寄居） Japan |
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| Station code | TJ-38 (Tobu) |
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| Opened | 1901 |
Yorii Station (寄居駅 Yorii-eki?) is a railway station in Yorii, Saitama, Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operators Tobu Railway and Chichibu Railway.
Yorii Station is served by the following three lines.
On the Tobu Tojo Line during the daytime, the station is served by two "Local" (all-stations) trains per hour in each direction to and from Ogawamachi. There are no direct trains to or from Ikebukuro.
The station consists of three island platforms, each serving two tracks for the Tobu Tojo Line, Chichibu Main Line, and Hachikō Line.
View of the station showing Tōbu platforms on the left, Chichibu Railway platforms in the centre, and JR East platforms off-camera to the right, January 2006
View of the JR Hachiko Line platforms with KiHa 110 DMUs crossing, April 2007
The station opened on October 7, 1901, as the terminus of the Jōbu Railway (present-day Chichibu Railway) from Kumagaya. From April 2, 1903, the Jōbu Railway line was extended from Yorii to Hagure.
The Tobu Railway station opened on July 10, 1925, with the completion of the Tōjō Line from Ogawamachi.
The JR (former Japanese Government Railways) station opened on January 25, 1933, following the extension of the Hachikō Line from Kodama. The Hachikō Line was extended south to Ogawamachi on October 6, 1934.
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