{"id":805,"date":"2006-10-25T00:47:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2020-02-11T19:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:51:45","slug":"new-nagahama-station-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/new-nagahama-station-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nagahama Station opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/displayimage.php?album=393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Nagahama Station\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/shiga\/nagahama\/eki\/na610-IMG_8080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\"><\/a>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Nagahama_Station\">JR Nagahama Station<\/a> opened its doors on Oct. 14, 2006. The new station building has a retro look based on the very first Nagahama Station building which is now preserved as a nearby museum called <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/displayimage.php?album=393&amp;pid=13504#top_display_media\">Nagahama Railroad Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This month, the JR&nbsp;<a title=\"Hokuriku Main Line\" href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Hokuriku_Main_Line\">Hokuriku Main Line<\/a> switched to direct-current electrification between&nbsp;<a title=\"Nagahama Station (page does not exist)\" href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/w\/index.php?title=Nagahama_Station&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Nagahama Station<\/a> and Tsuruga Station&nbsp;(Fukui), enabling faster shin-kaisoku trains to reach Shiga&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Hokuriku_Main_Line\">Hokuriku Line<\/a> train stations (Torahime, Kawake, Takatsuki, Kinomoto, Yogo, Omi-Shiotsu Stations) directly from Kyoto. Before the switch, passengers had to transfer trains at Nagahama Station to go beyond Nagahama.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Nagahama Station, most of the other Hokuriku Line train stations in Shiga also rebuilt their train station buildings, anticipating an increase of visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new JR Nagahama Station opened its doors on Oct. 14, 2006. The new station building has a retro look based on the very first Nagahama Station building which is now preserved as a nearby museum called Nagahama Railroad Square&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nagahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/7086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}