Hayakawa Station

Hayakawa Station (早川駅, Hayakawa eki) is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line of East Japan Railway Company in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The station is 86.0 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

JT17 Hayakawa Station 早川駅
Hayakawa Station building
Location	Hayakawa 1-chome 16-1, Odawara, Kanagawa （神奈川県小田原市早川一丁目16-1） Japan
Operated by	East Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1922
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	1,550 daily
Services
Preceding station   JR East   Following station Nebukawa JT18 toward Atami Tōkaidō Main Line Rapid Acty      Local & Rapid Rabbit/Urban Odawara JT16 toward Tokyo

Station history

Hayakawa Station first opened on December 21, 1922, when the section of the Atami-Odawara Line connecting Odawara with Manazuru was completed. From December 1, 1934 this became the Tōkaidō Main Line. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in 1959, and parcel services by 1972. With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC Card system came into operation from November 18, 2001. The “Green Window” service counter was discontinued from 2007.[1]

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Tōkaidō Main Line

Layout

Hayakawa Station has a single island platform, connected to the station building by an overpass. The platform is too short to accommodate trains longer than 15 cars in length, so a door cut system is employed.

Station layout

1	JT Tōkaidō Line	for Atami, Mishima, Numazu JT Itō Line for Itō
2	JT Tōkaidō Line・Ueno-Tokyo Line	for Odawara, Yokohama, Tokyo JU Utsunomiya Line for Utsunomiya and Kuroiso JU Takasaki Line for Takasaki and Maebashi

References

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

External links

• Official home page.(in Japanese)

Notes

1. Japanese Wikipedia entry