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Shin-Iwakuni Station (新岩国駅, Shin-Iwakuni-eki, lit. "New Iwakuni Station") is a railway station on the high-speed Sanyo Shinkansen line in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi , Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
The west side of the station is a commercial area, and the east side of the station is an urban and industrial area. Iwakuni Port is located to the north of the station, and Iwakuni Airfield (Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport) is located to the south of the station, both of which are about 2.5 km away from the station. Public facilities such as the ...
Seiryū-Shin-Iwakuni Station is served by the Nishikigawa Railway Nishikigawa Seiryū Line and is located 3.9 km from the start of the line at Kawanishi. [1] It is linked by a walkway to Shin-Iwakuni Station on the Sanyo Shinkansen approximately 300 m from this station. [2]
Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States.Operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Muni Metro served an average of 157,700 passengers per weekday in the fourth quarter of 2019, making it the second-busiest light rail system in the United States.
A morning Gantoku Line train at Iwakuni Station, headed by a class DE10 diesel locomotive, circa 1976. The line was originally built to shorten the Sanyo Main Line along the old San'yōdō. The 3.7 km Iwakuni to Marifu (now Nishi-Iwakuni) section opened in 1929, and the 3.9 km Kushigahama to Suo-Hanaoka section opened in 1932. [1]
Iwakuni (岩国市, Iwakuni-shi) is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2023 [update] , the city had an estimated population of 127,512 in 65182 households and a population density of 157 persons per km 2 . [ 1 ]
The station opened on 15 April 1929, initially named Iwakuni Station. [2] It was renamed Nishi-Iwakuni in 1942, and at the same time, the original Marifu Station was renamed Iwakuni Station. [2] With the privatization of the Japan National Railway (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan railway Company (JR West).
Now known as the American Forces Network-Japan (AFN-Japan), with the disestablishment in 1997 of the Far East Network, this network provides military members, Department of Defense civilian employees, and State Department diplomatic personnel and their families with news, information and entertainment by over-the-air radio and TV, and by base cable television.