Hatchōnawate Station

Hatchōnawate Station (八丁畷駅, Hatchōnawate-eki) is a railway station in Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Keikyu.

Lines

The station is served by the Keikyu Main Line and JR East's Nambu Branch Line. It is located 1.1 kilometers from the Shitte junction on the Nambu Branch Line, and 13.1 kilometers from the starting point of the Keikyu Main Line at Shinagawa Station, in Tokyo.

Station layout

The Keikyu station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge for Keikyu, and the JR East station has one side platform serving a single track.

Platforms

1	■ Keikyu Main Line	for Yokohama, Shin-Zushi, Uraga, and Misakiguchi
2	■ Keikyu Main Line	for Keikyū Kamata, Haneda Airport, Shinagawa, Sengakuji, and Oshiage
3	■ Nambu Branch Line	for Shitte and Hamakawasaki

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Keikyu Main Line
Ltd. Exp.: no stop
Rapid Ltd. Exp.: no stop
Keikyu Wing: no stop
Keikyū Kawasaki		Local		Tsurumi-ichiba
Nambu Branch Line
Shitte		Local		Kawasaki-Shinmachi

History

Hatchōnawate Station opened on December 25, 1916, as a station on the Keihin Electric Railway. The Nambu Line connected to the station on March 25, 1930 initially for freight operations, and with passenger operations from April 10 of the same year. The Nambu line was nationalized on April 1, 1944 and freight operations abolished the same year. It later became part of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) system. The level crossing at the station was replaced by a footbridge on October 28, 1974. Along with privatization and division of JNR, JR East assumed operations of the Nambu Branch Line from April 1, 1987. The station building was rebuilt in 1989.

References

• Miura, Kazuo. Keikyū　Kakuekiteisha to Kamakura Monogatari. Inban Publishing　(1998). ISBN 4-8083-0624-7 (Japanese)

External links

• Keikyu Hatchōnawate Station (Japanese)
• JR East station information (Japanese)