Kurobe-Unazukionsen Station

Kurobe-Unazukionsen Station (黒部宇奈月温泉駅, Kurobe-Unazuki-onsen-eki) is a railway station on the high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen line in Kurobe, Toyama, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Kurobe-Unazukionsen Station is served by the high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen line from Tokyo to Kanazawa, and is located 253.1 km (157.3 mi) from the official starting point of the line at Takasaki.

[1] The departure melody used for the shinkansen platforms is "Kirameki: Mizu no Miyako kara" (煌~水の都から~), composed by singer-songwriter Kei Takahara [ja], who was born in Toyama Prefecture.

Initially given the tentative name of Shin-Kurobe Station (新黒部駅, lit.

[4] Kurobe-Unazukionsen station opened for service on the Hokuriku Shinkansen on 14 March 2015.

The station under construction in September 2014