Kikuna Station (菊名駅, Kikuna-eki) is an interchange commuter railway station located in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated jointly by the private railway company Tokyu Corporation and by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
JH15 TY16 Kikuna Station 菊名駅 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kikuna 7-chome, Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 222-0011 Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°30′35″N 139°37′53″E / 35.50972°N 139.63139°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3 island platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Station code | JH15, TY16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 14 February 1926 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FY2019 (boarding only) | 53,819 daily (JR) 68,768 daily (Tokyu) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lines
editKikuna Station is served by the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line from Shibuya in Tokyo to Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is 18.8 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Shibuya. It is also served by the Yokohama Line and is 4.8 kilometers from the terminus of that line at Higashi-Kanagawa.
Station layout
editThe JR East portion of Kikuna Station has a single island platform serving two elevated tracks, connected to the station building and the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line by an underpass. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. Tōkyū Tōyoko Kikuna Station has two island platforms serving four tracks.
JR East platforms
edit| 1 | JH Yokohama Line | for Machida and Hachioji |
| 2 | JH Yokohama Line | for Higashi-Kanagawa, Sakuragicho, and Ōfuna |
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Ticket gates -
Platforms 1 and 2
Tokyu platforms
edit| 3,4 | TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line | for Yokohama Minatomirai Line for Minatomirai, Motomachi-Chūkagai |
| 5,6 | TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line | for Musashi-kosugi, Jiyūgaoka, Naka-Meguro and Shibuya F Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for Kotake-Mukaihara and Wakōshi Seibu Ikebukuro Line for Hanno / Shinrin-Koen |
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Ticket gates -
Platforms
History
editKikuna Station was opened on February 14, 1926 as a station on the privately held Tokyo-Yokohama Railway Company (the predecessor to the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line). The Japanese Government Railways (the predecessor to the JNR) began operations to Kikuna on September 1 of the same year. All freight operations were suspended from 1970. In 1972, Tōkyū Tōyoko Line portion of the station was rebuilt, with new elevated tracks and a new station building; however, the tracks remained unused until the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line connected to the station in 1988 (which was then discontinued on 15 March 2013 when the Daikan-yama to Shibuya section of Tōkyū Tōyoko Line was moved to underground and with through running to Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line began). With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the JNR portion of the station came under the operational control of JR East. The Tōkyū Tōyoko Line platforms were lengthened in 1991 to accommodate seven-car trains; with through running with Fukutoshin Line, the platforms were lengthened again to accommodate ten-car trains.
Station numbering was introduced to the Yokohama Line platforms 20 August 2016 with Kikuna being assigned station number JH15.[1][2]
Passenger statistics
editIn fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 53,819 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3] During the same period, the Tokyo portion of the station was used by an average of 136,992 passengers daily (total passengers).[4]
The daily average passenger figures (boarding only) for previous years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | JR East | Tōkyū | |
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| 2005 | 45,783 | 59,408 | [5] |
| 2010 | 50,969 | 66,331 | [6] |
| 2015 | 53,228 | 69,249 | [7] |
Surrounding area
edit- Eiri Girls'High School (formerly Takagi Girls' High School)
- Yokohama Municipal Kikuna Elementary School
- Yokohama Municipal Kohoku Library
- Rensho-ji Temple
- Kikuna Shrine
References
edit- ^ "⾸都圏エリアへ 「駅ナンバリング」を導⼊します" [Introduce “station numbering” to the Tokyo metropolitan area] (PDF). jreast.co.jp (in Japanese). 6 April 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ Kusamachi, Yoshikazu (7 April 2016). "JA・JK・JT・AKB…JR東日本、首都圏で駅ナンバリングなど導入へ" [JA, JK, JT, AKB … JR East to introduce station numbering in the Tokyo metropolitan area]. Response Automotive Media (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ "2020年度乗降人員" (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyu Corporation. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成18年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成23年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成28年度 [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
External links
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Media related to Kikuna Station at Wikimedia Commons
- JR Kikuna Station (JR East)(in Japanese)
- Tokyu Station (in Japanese)
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