Seijōgakuen-Mae Station

Seijogakuen-Mae Station (成城学園前駅; -eki) is a major stop on the Odakyu Electric Railway Odakyu Line in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, 11.6km down the line from Shinjuku Station. It is used by about 83,000 passengers a day. Express trains stop at the station, which means many more use the station to change to local service trains, and vice versa.

The station is named after the nearby Seijo University.

Layout

There are four platform faces, situated on two islands. They are in the basement level - the only Odakyu station to have underground platforms apart from the Shinjuku terminus.

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The entrances (North, South and West gates), ticket machines, ticket gates and the station office are on the ground level.

The commercial facilities (Seijo Corty) also start on ground level. Level one and two consist of a supermarket and various shops, level three of community services such as a nursery, cookery and language schools and a gym, and a restaurant and an outdoor balcony on level four.

Adjacent stations

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urroundings

A neighbourhood shopping district surrounds the station, especially outside the North Exit.

There are some high-quality residential areas to the north of the station, home to several well-known personalities.

The "Soshigaya Ryugakusei Kaikan" (祖師谷留学生会館), a large residential facility for foreign students, is about 15 minutes walk north of the station.

History

Seijogakuen-Mae Station was opened on April 1st, 1927.

Between 1996 and 2004 it was extensively redeveloped and partiallymoved underground as part of the Odakyu Line's track doublingproject.

September 2006 saw the opening of [http://www.seijo-corty.jp/ Seijo Corty] , a four-storey commercial building.