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Naka-Oguni Station (中小国駅, Naka-Oguni-eki) is a railway station on the Tsugaru Line in the town of Sotogahama, Aomori, Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).
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Naka-Oguni Station is served by the JR East Tsugaru Line and JR Hokkaido Kaikyō Line. It is 31.4 km from the southern terminus of the Tsugaru Line at Aomori Station. The station is regarded as the southern starting point of the Tsugaru Kaikyō Line for the determination of railway fares, although the effective southern terminus for all Tsugaru Kaikyō Line trains is at Aomori Station.
Station layout
Naka-Oguni Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic.
Adjacent stations
Limited Express services through the Kaikyō line do not stop at this station.
History
The station opened on October 21, 1958, as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East. With the opening of the Tsugaru Kaikyō Line on March 13, 1988, operation of the station has been shared between JR East and JR Hokkaido, although no trains of Kaikyō Line stop at the station.
Surrounding area
Shin-Naka-Oguni Junction (新中小国信号場, Shin-Nakaoguni Shingōjō) is located 2.3 km north of Naka-Oguni, between Naka-Oguni and Ōdai / Tsugaru-Imabetsu. Up until this point, the Tsugaru Line and Kaikyō Line share the same tracks from Aomori Station. The junction also marks the border between the electrified portion of the Tsugaru Line (Aomori to Naka-Oguni) and the non-electrified portion (Naka-Oguni to Minmaya), as well as the border between JR East and JR Hokkaido. Also, The Hokkaido Shinkansen tracks from Shin-Aomori Station merge with the Kaikyō Line tracks immediately north of the Junction.