Nagahama

Nagahama Station ( 長浜駅 Nagahama-eki ? ) is a railway station on the Hokuriku Main Line in Nagahama, Shiga , Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Between 1991 and 2006, the station was the dividing point of electrification systems (south of the station, including the station, was 1500 V DC and north was 20,000 V AC ) so that all regional trains from Osaka and Kyoto using DC-only electric multiple units terminated at this station. In 2006 the DC zone was extended to Tsuruga Station , but there still exist some terminating trains at Nagahama. The earlier station, built 1882, is now preserved as a museum (The Old Nagahama Station Museum), and is the oldest preserved railroad station in Japan.