Ōfuna Station

Ōfuna Station 大船駅
West gate of JR Ōfuna Station
Location
Prefecture	Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa)
City	Kamakura
Neighborhood etc.	1 Ōfuna
Postal Code	247-0056
(in Japanese)	神奈川県鎌倉市大船一丁目
History
Year opened	1888
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East, Shonan Monorail
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line Negishi Line Yokosuka Line Shōnan Monorail Enoshima Line
Statistics	92,839 passengers/day 2008
Medium bus terminal at this station

Shonan Monorail at Ōfuna Station

Ōfuna Station (大船駅, Ōfuna-eki^?) is a railway station in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Ōfuna Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line, Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, Negishi Line (Keihin-Tōhoku Line), Yokosuka Line as well as the Shonan Monorail. It is 46.5 km from the terminus of the Tōkaidō Main Line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Ōfuna Station is an elevated station with five island platforms serving a total of 11 tracks. "Track 0" to the outside of Track 1 has no platform access and is reserved for the through passage of freight trains. The adjacent Shonan Monorail station has a single bay platform.

Platforms

1-2	■Tōkaidō Main Line	for Yokohama, and Kawasaki, and Tokyo
	■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (through service to Takasaki Line)	for Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Ōmiya, Kumagaya, Takasaki, and Maebashi
3-4	■Tōkaidō Main Line	for Odawara and Atami
5-6	■Yokosuka Line	for Shinagawa, Tokyo, (Sōbu Main Line) Chiba, (Narita Line) Narita Airport, (Uchibō Line) Kimitsu, and (Sotobō Line) Kazusa-Ichinomiya
	■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (through service to Utsunomiya Line)	for Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Ōmiya, Oyama, and Utsunomiya
7	■Yokosuka Line	for Zushi, Kamakura, Yokosuka, and Kurihama
	■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (through service to Utsunomiya Line)	for Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Ōmiya
8	■Yokosuka Line	for Zushi, Kamakura, Yokosuka, and Kurihama
9-10	■Enoshima Line	for Fujimichō
	■Enoshima Line	for Shin-Yokohama

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Tōkaidō Main Line
Totsuka		Local	Fujisawa
Totsuka		Rapid Acty	Fujisawa
Shinagawa		Commuter Rapid	Fujisawa
Yokosuka Line
Totsuka		Local	Kita-Kamakura
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Totsuka		Local	Kita-Kamakura
Totsuka		Rapid	Fujisawa
Totsuka		Special Rapid	Fujisawa
Keihin-Tōhoku Line—Negishi Line
Hongōdai		Local	Terminus
Hongōdai		Rapid	Terminus
Shōnan Monorail Enoshima Line
Terminus		Local	Fujimichō

History

Ōfuna Station was opened on November 1, 1888 as a station on the Tōkaidō Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the predecessor to the post-war Japan National Railway (JNR). Initially for passenger operations only. The Yokosuka Line between Ōfuna and Yokosuka opened on June 16, 1889. Freight operations began in 1894. In May 1966, a monorail began operations from Ōfuna to "Yokohama Dreamland", an amusement park scheduled to be built north of the station. However, the project collapsed the following year, and the monorail ceased operations in September 1967. However, from March 7, 1970 another monorail began operations from Ōfuna to the south. This Shonan Monorail eventually connected the station to Enoshima. All freight operations were discontinued from Ōfuna from August 1972. On April 9, 1973 Ōfuna became a terminal station for the Negishi Line. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. A new station building was completed from 2006-2007.

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

External links

Media related to Ōfuna Station at Wikimedia Commons

• JR East Ōfuna Station (Japanese)
• Shonan Monorail Ōfuna Station (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°21′12″N 139°31′52″E / 35.35333°N 139.53111°E / 35.35333; 139.53111