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Atsugi Station

Atsugi Station (厚木駅, Atsugi-eki) is a joint-use passenger railway station located in the city of Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan. It is jointly operated by the private railway company Odakyu Electric Railway and by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Odakyu manages the station premises.

Lines

Atsugi Station is served by the Sagami Line and the Odakyu Odawara Line. The station is 44.1 km (27.4 mi) from the Odawara Line's terminal at Shinjuku Station and 14.2 km (8.8 mi) from the Sagami Line's terminus at Chigasaki Station.

Station layout

The Odakyu portion of station consists of two opposed side platforms with two tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The JR portion of the station has a single side platform, serving one track.

Platforms

Odakyu

1  Odakyu Odawara Line for Hon-Atsugi, Shin-Matsuda, and Odawara
2  Odakyu Odawara Line for Sagami-Ōno, Shin-Yurigaoka, Yoyogi-Uehara, Chiyoda line Ayase, and Shinjuku

JR East

1  Sagami Line for Hashimoto, Samukawa, and Chigasaki

Station history

Atsugi Station was opened on 12 May 1926, as the terminus of Jinchū Railroad (神中鉄道), now Sagami Railway). Despite being located in neighboring Ebina, the station was named “Atsugi” to fulfill a pledge by the railway management to build a railroad “to Atsugi”. The Sotetsu Railway (currently the JR Sagami Line) linked to the station on 15 July 1926. On 1 April 1927, the Odakyu Electric Railway built the adjacent Kawaharaguchi Station (河原口駅). With the completion of Ebina Station on the Jinchū Railroad on 25 November 1941, operations to Atsugi were discontinued. Atsugi Station of newly nationalized Sagami Line and Kawaharaguchi Station were joined into the same station building on 1 June 1944. A new station building was opened on 31 July 1971.

Station numbering was introduced in January 2014 with Atsugi being assigned station number OH33.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 6,863 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). During the same period, the Odakyu station was used by an average of 20,287 passengers daily (total).

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

Fiscal year daily average (JR) daily average (Odakyu)
2005 5,477 8,978
2010 6,319 9,888
2015 7,029 10,570

Surrounding area

The nearest railway station from US Naval Air Facility Atsugi is Sagami-Ōtsuka Station, not Atsugi Station.

See also

References

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  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
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