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Chigasaki Station茅ヶ崎駅
North side of the station Location Prefecture Kanagawa
(See other stations in Kanagawa)City Chigasaki Neighborhood etc. Motomachi 1-1 (in Japanese) 神奈川県茅ヶ崎市元町1-1 History Year opened 1898 Rail services Operator(s) JR East Line(s) Tōkaidō Main Line
Sagami LineStatistics 55,990 passengers/day 2008 Major bus terminal(s) attached to the station
Chigasaki Station (茅ヶ崎駅 Chigasaki-eki ) is a station in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the East Japan Railway Company. It is 56.8 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.
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History
Chigasaki Station was opened on June 15, 1898 for both passenger and freight service as part of the section of the Japan National Railway (JNR) Tōkaidō Main Line connecting Yokohama with Kōzu. The adjacent Sagami Line station (then operated by the Sagami Railway opened on September 28, 1921. It was nationalized on June 1, 1944, becoming part of the Japan National Railways. Scheduled freight services were discontinued from 1984, and small parcel services from 1985. With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of the East Japan Railway Company. The north exit bus terminal was greatly expanded in 1996 and 1998. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC Card system came into operation on November 18, 2001. The station building was reconstructed in 2006 to include a multi-story department store.
Lines
This station is served by the following lines:
- East Japan Railway Company
Station layout
Chigasaki Station has three island platforms connected by overpasses/
1・2 ■Sagami Line Ebina ・ Kamimizo ・ Hashimoto ・(Yokohama Line) Hachiōji 3 ■Tōkaidō Line (Shōnan Liner) Shinagawa ・ Tokyo ・ Shinjuku 4 ■Tōkaidō Line (Shōnan Liner) Hiratsuka ・ Odawara 5 ■Tōkaidō Line Ōfuna ・ Yokohama ・ Shinagawa ・ Tokyo ■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(through service for Takasaki Line)Shibuya ・ Shinjuku ・ Ikebukuro ・ Ōmiya ・ Kumagaya ・ Takasaki ・ Maebashi 6 ■Tōkaidō Line Hiratsuka ・ Odawara ・ Atami ・ Numazu ・ (Itō Line) Itō ・(Gotemba Line) Yamakita Adjacent stations
« Service » Tsujidō Tōkaidō Line Hiratsuka Fujisawa Rapid Acty Hiratsuka Fujisawa Commuter Rapid Hiratsuka Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Tsujidō Rapid Hiratsuka Fujisawa Special Rapid Hiratsuka Terminus Sagami Line Kita-Chigasaki References
- Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1 (Japanese)
External links
- JR East station information (Japanese)
Stations of the Tōkaidō Main Line (JR East) Stations of the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line --- Takasaki Line - Tōkaidō Main Line ---
(Maebashi - Shin-Maebashi - Ino - Takasaki-Ton-yamachi) - Takasaki - Kuragano - Shinmachi - Jimbohara - Honjō - Okabe - Fukaya - Kagohara - Kumagaya - Gyōda - Fukiage - Kita-Kōnosu - Kōnosu - Kitamoto - Okegawa - Kita-Ageo - Ageo - Miyahara - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Musashi-Kosugi - Yokohama - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Fujisawa - Tsujidō - Chigasaki - Hiratsuka - Ōiso - Ninomiya - Kōzu - Kamonomiya - Odawara
--- Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line ---
Utsunomiya - Suzumenomiya - Ishibashi - Jichi-idai - Koganei - Oyama - Mamada - Nogi - Koga - Kurihashi - Higashi-Washinomiya - Kuki - Shin-Shiraoka - Shiraoka - Hasuda - Higashi-Ōmiya - Toro - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Nishi-Ōi - Musashi-Kosugi - Shin-Kawasaki - Yokohama - Hodogaya - Higashi-Totsuka - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Kita-Kamakura - Kamakura - ZushiStations of the Sagami Line Chigasaki - Kita-Chigasaki - Kagawa - Samukawa - Miyayama - Kurami - Kadosawabashi - Shake - Atsugi - Ebina - Iriya - Sōbudai-shita - Shimomizo - Harataima - Banda - Kamimizo - Minami-Hashimoto - Hashimoto
Coordinates: 35°19′49″N 139°24′24″E / 35.33028°N 139.40667°E
Categories:- Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture
- Railway stations opened in 1898
- Tōkaidō Main Line
- Stations of East Japan Railway Company
- Sagami Line
- Shonan Shinjuku Line
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