Station

Kurobe

黒部

Kurobe
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Train service

Weekday departures: 69/day · Sat & holiday departures: 69/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:33 / 24:08

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (6)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

  • Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line: IkujiUozu

Location

History

Kurobe Station opened on 1910-04-16 as Mikkaichi Station when the Hokuriku Main Line was extended from Uozu to Tomari, and was renamed Kurobe on 1956-04-10. The section through the station was electrified at AC in 1965, the present second-generation station building opened in August 1967, and a Midori-no-Madoguchi reserved-ticket window was installed in March 1986. JR West and JR Freight took over the station at privatisation on 1987-04-01. When the Hokuriku Shinkansen reached Kanazawa on 2015-03-14, JR West's local operations through Kurobe were transferred to the third-sector Ainokaze Toyama Railway; the JR Freight station was formally closed on 2016-04-01.

Notes

To enliven the area around the station, the zipper maker YKK -- headquartered in Kurobe -- opened the K-TOWN complex in 2017, pairing an employee dormitory with an event hall, shops and restaurants intended for general public use.

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