Chigasaki Station (茅ヶ崎駅, Chigasaki-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Chigasaki Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, and is located 56.8 kilometers from Tokyo. It is also the southern terminus of the 33.3 kilometer Sagami Line.

Station layout

Chigasaki Station has three island platforms with an elevated station building. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1,2 ■ Sagami Line for Ebina, Kamimizo, Hashimoto, Hachiōji (via JH Yokohama Line)
3 ■ Tōkaidō Line

(Ltd. Exp. Shōnan)

for Shinagawa and Tokyo
for Shinjuku
4 ■ Tōkaidō Line

(Ltd. Exp. Shōnan)

for Hiratsuka and Odawara
5 JT Tokaido Line
(Ueno-Tokyo Line) 		for Yokohama, Tokyo, Ueno, Ōmiya
JU Utsunomiya Line for Utsunomiya and Kuroiso
JU Takasaki Line for Takasaki and Maebashi
JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line for Yokohama, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Ōmiya, Takasaki and Maebashi (via JU Takasaki Line)
6 JT Tōkaidō Line for Kōzu, Odawara, Atami, Numazu
JT Itō Line for Itō

The song "Kibō no Wadachi" by the Southern All-Stars began to be used as the departure melody for platforms 5 and 6 from 1 October 2014.

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.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 55,778 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1]

The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year daily average
2005 54,041[2]
2010 54,599[3]
2015 55,600[4]

Surrounding area

  • Chigasaki City Hall
  • Chigasaki Municipal Hospital
  • Chigasaki Citizens' Cultural Centerl
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Chigasaki High School
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Tsurumine High School
  • Chigasaki Tokushukai Hospital
  • Chigasaki City Library
  • Chigasaki City Museum of Art

See also

References

  • Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1 (in Japanese)
  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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

Media related to Chigasaki Station at Wikimedia Commons