Hanoura Station is served by the Mugi Line and is located 17.7 km from the beginning of the line at Tokushima.[3] Besides the local trains on the Mugi Line, some trains of the Muroto limited express service between Mugi and Tokushima and the Home Express Anan from Tokushima to Anan stop at the station.[4]
Layout
The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The station building houses a waiting room and a JR ticket window (without a Midori no Madoguchi facility).[5] Access to the island platform is by means of a level crossing and ramp. A passing loop and siding branch off track 2.[2][3][6]
Hanoura Station was opened on 15 December 1916 along a stretch of track laid down by the privately run Anan Railway (阿南鉄道, Anan Tetsudo) from Chūden to Hanoura and Furushō. On 27 March 1936, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) built the first stretch of the Mugi Line linking up Hanoura with Kuwano. On 1 July 1936, the Anan Railway was nationalized and the track from Chūden to Hanoura became part of the Mugi Line. The track to Furushō became a branch line. Passenger services were stopped and it was used for freight only. Freight operations stopped on 1 Jul 1943, restarted on 10 May 1950 and finally ceased altogether on 1 April 1961. Thereafter the branch line track was removed.
^"JR四国の駅 窓口営業時間一覧" [JR Shikoku station ticket window opening hours list] (PDF). JR Shikoku. 28 November 2017. Archived from the original(PDF) on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
^"羽ノ浦駅" [Hanoura Station]. shikoku.org.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
^Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 660, 662. ISBN4-533-02980-9.
^Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 217. ISBN4-533-02980-9.
^令和３年版 阿南市統計書 [Reiwa 3rd Year Edition Anan City Statistics] (in Japanese). Japan: Anan city. 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
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