Bizen-Fukukawa Station (備前福河駅, Bizen-Fukukawa-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Akō, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).^[1]

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Bizen-Fukukawa Station 備前福河駅
Bizen-Fukukawa Station in January 2008
General information
Location	Fukuura, Akō-shi, Hyōgo-ken 678-0257 Japan
Coordinates	34.7466°N 134.3317°E / 34.7466; 134.3317
Owned by	West Japan Railway Company
Operated by	West Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Akō Line
Distance	16.4 km (10.2 mi) from Aioi
Platforms	1 side platform
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Ground level
Accessible	None
Other information
Status	Unstaffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	1 March 1955 (1955-03-01)
Passengers
FY2019	30 daily
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Bizen-Fukukawa Station is served by the Akō Line, and is located 16.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Aioi, and 5.9 kilometers from Banshū-Akō.

The station consists of one ground-level side platform serving a single-directional track, with the station building on the right side when facing in the direction of Okayama. The station is unattended.^[2] When the station was opened, it had an island platform, but only one side of the platform was used for passenger operations, with the other side used exclusively for freight. The railroad tracks are slightly S-shaped at both ends of the station. This is a remnant of a plan to draw another railroad track on the south side of the existing track so that express trains could pass; however, as the Akō Line was later determined to be used only for local operations, this plan was never completed.

Bizen-Fukukawa Station was opened on March 1, 1955. At the time, the local municipality was Fukukawa village in Wake district of Okayama Prefecture, hence the use of "Bizen" in the station name (as Bizen province was part of what is now Okayama]]. However, on September 1, 1963, the village was transferred to Hyōgo prefecture. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 30 passengers daily^[3]

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