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Tsuyama station, located at Tsuyama City (the 3rd largest city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan), is a station of JR Kishin line.
Tsuyama station has a daily ridership of 2,122 passengers in 2010. As an key junction of nothern Okayama, direct trains to Tsuyama and Imbi line also come here.
I took this movie of station, vicinity, and trains at Tsuyama station.
Tsuyama station, which has remained since it opened in 1923, has half-hipped tiled roof.
As an key junction of traffic, there are a lot of taxis.
Expressway buses travel to and from Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo.
The statue standing in the center of rotary is a Western scholar Gempo Mitsukuri(1799-1863) from Tsuyama.
He published Japan's first medical journal and translated the official letter of the U.S. President Millard Fillmore when Commodore Matthew C. Perry visit Japan in 1853.
On the right side of the station, there is a tourist information center, where tourists can rent bicycles.
There is no toilet in the station. Passengers need to use the toilet next to the information center or toilet in trains.
There is a waiting room with doors next to the entrance.
The kiosk opens between 6:30 and 19:00, where passengers can buy souvenirs of Tsuyama.
As already stated, trains on the Kishin, Imbi and Tsuyama line arrive at and depart from Tsuyama station.
On the Kishin line, 12 trains departs for Niimi and 11 for Sayo every day.
The number of trains on the Imbi line diverging from Higashi-Tsuyama is 10, and 22 trains on the Tsuyama line departs here every day.
Tsuyama station belongs to Kishin line. However, according to the number of trains, JR attaches weight to the connection to Okayama on the Tsuyama line.
The ticket office opens between 5:30 and 22:30.
Tsuyama station has 2 platforms with 4 tracks. Each platform is connected by the underpass.
Trains for Chizu on the Imbi line depart from the platform No.1, and trains for Sayo on the Kishin line depart from the No.2.
Trains for Niimi on the Kishin line depart from the No.3, and trains for Okayama on the Tsuyama line depart from the No.4.
The toilets on the platform has been closed since 2009.
The bridge over railway are also closed.
The 13-car-long platform is a remnant from the days when express trains such as MIMASAKA and MISASA arrive and depart here.
There are roundhouse and railway turntable on the west of the station.
The long platforms and these facilities show that this station were crowded as a intersection of north, south, east and west railway routes in the Chugoku District.