Toride Station

Toride Station (取手駅, Toride-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

The JR East portion of the station has three elevated island platforms serving six tracks.

The Kantō Railway portion of the station has a single ground level island platform.

[1] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

A 27-year-old Japanese man was arrested after stabbing 14 people outside of the west entrance of Toride Station on the morning of 17 December 2010.

Toride Station east entrance, June 2009