Aikō-Ishida Station
Aikō-Ishida Station (愛甲石田駅, Aikō-Ishida-eki) is a railway station on the Odakyu Electric Railway’s Odakyu Odawara Line in the city of Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Part of the station physically extends into neighboring Isehara city. The station is 48.5 rail kilometers from the line’s terminal at Shinjuku Station.
Aikō-Ishida Station 愛甲石田駅 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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North Exit of Aikō-Ishida Station, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Aikō, Atsugi, Kanagawa (神奈川県厚木市愛甲) Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | Odakyu Electric Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Odakyu Odawara Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2008) | 49,005 daily | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station history
Aikō-Ishida Station was opened on April 1, 1927, on the Odakyu Odawara Line of the Odakyu Electric Railway with normal and 6-car limited express services. A limited number of romancecar express trains began serving the station from 1987, the same year that the new station building was completed.
The station was named after Aikō, Atsugi and adjacent Ishida, Isehara.
Lines
- Odakyu Electric Railway
- Odawara Line
Bus connections
- There is a bus to Shoin University which takes 15 minutes during off-peak traffic.
Building
Aikō-Ishida Station has two opposed side platforms with two tracks, connected to the station building by an overpass. The station building is built on a cantilever extending on top and at right angles to the rails and platforms.
Platforms
1 | ■ Odakyu Odawara Line | Westbound (For Shin-Matsuda, and Odawara) |
2 | ■ Odakyu Odawara Line | Eastbound (For Sagami-Ono, Shin-Yurigaoka, Yoyogi-Uehara, Chiyoda line Ayase, and Shinjuku) |
Surrounding area
References
- This article contains a translation of items from the equivalent page on the Japanese language Wikipedia.
External links
- Aikō-Ishida Station (Odakyū) (in Japanese)
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