Shin-Yurigaoka Station (新百合ヶ丘駅, Shin-Yurigaoka-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the Manpukuji neighborhood of Asao-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan and operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway.

Lines

Shin-Yurigaoka Station is served by the Odakyu Odawara Line, with some through services to and from Shinjuku in Tokyo. It lies 21.5 kilometres (13.4 miles) from the Shinjuku terminus. It is also the eastern terminus of the Odakyū Tama Line.

Station layout

The station consists of three island platforms serving six tracks, with an elevated station building.

Platforms

1-2 ■ Odakyū Odawara Line for Sagami-Ōno, Hon-Atsugi, and Odawara
3-4 ■ Odakyū Tama Line for Odakyu-Tama-Center and Karakida
5-6 ■ Odakyū Odawara Line for Kyōdō, Shimo-Kitazawa, and Yoyogi-Uehara
Tokyo Metro Chiyoda line for Ayase and Shinjuku

Lines

Shin-Yurigaoka Station is served by the Odakyū Odawara Line and is also the starting point of the It is 21.5 km from the terminus of the Odawara Line at Shinjuku Station.[2]

  • The north entrance to the station in March 2017
    The north entrance to the station in March 2017
  • An overview of the station platforms in December 2012
    An overview of the station platforms in December 2012

History

Shin Yurigaoka Station opened on 1 June 1974.[2] The greenfield station was developed by Odakyu Railway in 1974 as a purpose built station to hold trains for expresses to overtake local trains, and as a temporary holding spot for large numbers of passengers as the closer stations and rails towards central Tokyo were a chokepoint and had land acquisition issues and protracted legal filings with residents for decades, particularly in Setagaya ward.[3][1] There was no room for six parallel platforms closer to Tokyo. Due to these lawsuits, the congested Odakyū Odawara Line was even unable to acquire land by year 2000 for quad tracking on the Odawara line north of the station (in/out of Tokyo), resorting to phased expensive fixes to lack of land such as stacking rails vertically using tunnels and grade separation, finished in March 2018.[1] Along with the station, an attached masterplanned community was coordinated by Odakyu to support the railway. The station has been planned to connect to the Yokohama Municipal Subway and proposed Kawasaki Municipal Subway lines, but the Kawasaki plan has been cancelled.

Station numbering was introduced in January 2014 with Shin-Yurigaoka being assigned station number OH23.[4][5]

On 21 January 2020, Yokohama City and Kawasaki City announced the route and four new stations for the planned 6.5 km extension of the Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line from Azamino Station to Shin-Yurigaoka Station.[6][7] Construction of this section is expected to complete by 2030. [6][7] In June 2020, the Yokohama City Transportation Bureau started environmental impact asssesment procedures of the extension project.[8]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 21,681 passengers daily.[9]

The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year daily average
2005 21,572[10]
2010 21,177[11]
2015 21,522[12]

Surrounding area

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c 複々線化プロジェクト [Quadruple-tracking Project] (in Japanese). 2016. Archived from the original on 25 September 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 236. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.
  3. ^ "Residents can sue railway: top court". The Japan Times. Japan: The Japan Times Ltd. 8 December 2005. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  4. ^ "2014年1月から駅ナンバリングを順次導入します！" [From January 2014, station numbering will be introduced sequentially!] (PDF). odakyu.jp (in Japanese). 24 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 October 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  5. ^ Kusamichi, Yoshikazu (28 December 2013). "小田急グループ、鉄道から海賊船まで通しの駅番号…2014年1月から順次導入" [Odakyu Group, station numbers from railways to pirate ships, Introduced sequentially from January 2014]. Response Automotive Media (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  6. ^ a b "横浜市営地下鉄ブルーラインの延伸「あざみ野～新百合ヶ丘」概略ルート・駅位置が決定しました！" (PDF). City of Yokohama. 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  7. ^ a b "川崎市：事業計画の概要". www.city.kawasaki.jp. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  8. ^ "3号線延伸取組状況". www.city.yokohama.lg.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  9. ^ 鉄道部門：1日平均駅別乗降人員 [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: Odakyu Electric Railway. 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  10. ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成18年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

External links

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