Nonai Station

{{short description|Railway station in Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Nonai Station

| native_name = 野内駅

| native_name_lang = ja

| type = Regional rail station

| image = Nonai Station 20200621a.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Nonai Station in June 2020

| other_name =

| address = 34 Nonai Urashima, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture 039-3503

| country = Japan

| coordinates = {{coord|40|50|45.6|N|140|49|0.3|E|region:JP-02_type:railwaystation|display=inline, title}}

| operator = {{Aoimori Railway inline}}

| line = {{Colorbull|DodgerBlue}} Aoimori Railway Line

| platforms = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 2

| distance = 111.2 km from {{STN|Metoki|x}}

| connections =

| structure =

| code =

| status = Unstaffed

| website = {{official website|1=http://aoimorirailway.com/archives/chiiki-station/nonai}}

| opened = 16 July 1893

| electrified =

| rebuilt =

| closed =

| former =

| passengers = 1,086 daily boardings (2018)

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Aoimori|line=Aoimori|left=Asamushi-Onsen|right=Yadamae}}

| map_type = Japan Aomori Prefecture#Japan

}}

{{nihongo|Nonai Station|野内駅|Nonai-eki}} is a railway station on the Aoimori Railway Line in Nonai neighborhood of the city of Aomori in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.

Passenger trains serve the station over 17 and a half hours a day; the departure time between trains is roughly 30 minutes during the morning peak with reduced frequency at other times. The station also serves as a bus station for Aomori City Bus and JR Bus Tōhoku, with local bus routes connecting the station to communities throughout the city of Aomori.

Location

Nonai Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 111.2 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Metoki Station. It is 728.5 kilometers from {{STN|Tokyo|x}}.

Station layout

Nonai Station has two opposed side platforms built on an embankment and connected by a pedestrian underpass. The station building is unattended.

=Platforms=

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History

Nonai Station was opened on 16 July 1893 as a station on the Nippon Railway in the former village of Nonai.{{cite book |script-title=ja: 停車場変遷大辞典国鉄・JR編|trans-title= Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR| publisher = JTB | editor1-last = Ishino| editor1-first = Tetsu| year = 1998 | location = Japan |language= Japanese | volume = II| pages = 419–420 | isbn = 4-533-02980-9}} It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR), after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on 1 November 1906. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the operational control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on 4 December 2010. A new station building 1.5 kilometers southwest of the old one was completed in March 2011. The old station was demolished, but its sidings remain in place.{{cite web|title=野内駅の移転事業について|trans-title=About the relocation of Nonai Station|url=https://www.pref.aomori.lg.jp/kotsu/traffic/nonai-1.html|publisher=Aomori Prefecture Government|language=ja|date=1 February 2016|accessdate=23 March 2021}}

Services

Nonai Station is primarily served by trains operating on a local service on the Aoimori Railway Line between Aomori and Hachinohe. It is served by one rapid express train, the 560M train operated jointly by the Aoimori Railway and the Iwate Galaxy Railway between Aomori and {{STN|Morioka|x}}. Passenger trains serve the station for just over 17 and a half hours each day from 5:56{{nbsp}}am to 11:37{{nbsp}}pm. At peak hours between the first train and 9:39{{nbsp}}am, trains depart from the station roughly every 30 minutes; otherwise trains depart at an approximate hourly basis.{{cite web|title=青い森鉄道列車時刻表|trans-title=Aoimori Railway Train Timetable|url=http://aoimorirailway.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/229f5007e41ab2a56a1f29e49260b470.pdf|publisher=Aoimori Railway Co., Ltd|language=ja|date=25 February 2021|accessdate=23 March 2021}} In 2018, a daily average of 1,086 passengers boarded trains at Nonai Station,{{cite web|title=野内駅（青い森鉄道）の乗降客数の統計|trans-title=Passenger statistics of Asamushi-Onsen Station|url=http://statresearch.jp/traffic/train/stations/passengers_station_99_21.html|website=statresearch|language=ja|date=2021|accessdate=23 March 2021}} an increase from the daily average of 578 passengers the station served in 2011, the final year of its operation in the station's original location. In 2018, the station was the sixth busiest on the Aoimori Railway Line, excluding Aomori and Hachinohe stations, and the fourth busiest along the line in the city of Aomori.