Kaifu Station


Kaifu Station is a railway station in Kaiyō, Kaifu District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. As the southern terminus of the Mugi Line, it is operated by JR Shikoku and bears the station number "M28". As the northern terminus of the Asatō Line, it is operated by the Asa Kaigan Railway and bears the station number "TK28".

Lines

The station is the southern terminus of the Mugi Line and is located 79.3 km from the beginning of the line at. In addition the station is the start point of the 8.5 km long Asatō Line and is 6.5 km from the next station at. Only local trains of both lines stop at the station.

Layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of two side platforms serving two tracks on an elevated structure. There is no station building and the station is unstaffed by both JR Shikoku and the Asa Kaigan Railway. There are no ticket gates for both platform 1 and platform 2. Access to the platforms is by means of a flight of steps and the two platforms are linked by a level crossing across the tracks. A bike shed is provided at the base of the elevated structure.
Just to the north of the station, trains pass through the Chōnai Tunnel, a short tunnel original driven through a hill. Land development had led to the entire hill being removed but the tunnel structure was left intact.

Adjacent stations

!colspan=5|JR Shikoku
!colspan=5|Asa Kaigan Railway

History

opened the station on 1 October 1973 as an intermediate station when the track of the Mugi Line was extended from to. On 1 April 1987, with the privatization of JNR, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku. On 26 March 1992, the third sector Asa Kaigan Railway completing the extension of the track southwards to and the Asatō Line began operations with Kaifu as the northern terminus.
On 23 December 2015, a local community group in Kaiyō opened a community interaction centre underneath the elevated structure of the station to promote interaction between senior citizens and children in the town. It was located in the premises of a former town tourism information centre which had been built there in 1995.