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Biwako-hamaotsu Station

railway station in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
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Biwako-hamaotsu Station

Summary

Biwako-hamaotsu Station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.98% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station is located in Otsu[3].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station is in the country of Japan[4].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's transport network is recorded as Keihan Otsu Line[5].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's image is recorded as Keihan Biwako Hamaotsu Station.jpg[6].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's instance of is recorded as railway station[7].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's instance of is recorded as last station[8].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's connecting line is recorded as Ishiyama Sakamoto Line[9].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's connecting line is recorded as Keihan Keishin Line[10].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's operator is recorded as Keihan Electric Railway[11].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's adjacent station is recorded as Shimanoseki Station[12].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's adjacent station is recorded as Miidera Station[13].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's adjacent station is recorded as Kamisakaemachi Station[14].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's station code is recorded as OT12[15].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's Commons category is recorded as Biwako-Hamaotsu Station[16].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 9491424[17].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's located in time zone is recorded as Japan Standard Time[18].
  • +1880-07-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Biwako-hamaotsu Station[19].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 35.01135556, 'lon': 135.86383889}[20].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03gs5m2[21].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's official website is recorded as https://www.keihan.co.jp/traffic/station/611/info.html[22].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's number of platform tracks is recorded as {'amount': '+2'}[23].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's GeoNames ID is recorded as 7560943[24].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's date of official opening is recorded as +1880-00-00T00:00:00Z[25].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as 10902235[26].
  • Biwako-hamaotsu Station's GeoNLP ID is recorded as lVie3P[27].

Body

Geography

Biwako-hamaotsu Station is in the country of Japan[4]. It is located in Otsu[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include railway station[7] and last station[8].

History and Context

+1880-07-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Biwako-hamaotsu Station[19].

Why It Matters

Biwako-hamaotsu Station ranks in the top 0.98% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Transport network → Keihan Otsu Line
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 35.01135556, 'lon': 135.86383889}
    Number of platform faces → {'amount': '+1'}
    Aliases → —
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Added [[wikipedia:ur:بیواکو-ہاما اوتسو اسٹیشن]]"
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