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Chūō-Rinkan Station (中央林間駅, -eki^?) is a railway station of the Odakyu Electric Railway and Tokyu Corporation, in Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan.

Contents 1 Lines 2 Station Layout 2.1 Odakyu Enoshima Line 2.2 Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line 3 Adjacent stations 4 Exits 4.1 Ticket Gates 4.2 Station Building Exits 5 History 6 Local Area 6.1 Local Transportation 6.2 Shopping 6.3 Restaurants 7 Links

[edit] Lines

• Odakyu Enoshima Line - express and super-express stop. The Enoshima Romance Train does not stop at Chūō-Rinkan.
• Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line - Chūō-Rinkan is the end stop of this line. Almost all trains leaving from here go to Shibuya and then on to the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line. However since 2006 a few express trains (very few) from Chūō-Rinkan continue on the {Tokyu Oimachi Line} from Futako-Tamagawa, all the way to Oimachi instead.

[edit] Station Layout

[edit] Odakyu Enoshima Line

2-side platforms; 2-ways; above-ground.

1	■Enoshima Line	Fujisawa ・ Katase-Enoshima
2	■Enoshima Line	Sagami-Ōno ・ Machida ・ Shinjuku

[edit] Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line

1-island platform; end-station; underground.

1・2	■Den-en-toshi Line	Nagatsuta ・ Futako-Tamagawa ・ Shibuya ・ (Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line Direct) Oshiage ・ (Tōbu Isesaki Line Direct) Kuki ・ (Tōbu Nikkō Line Direct) Minami-Kurihashi ・ (Tōkyū Ōimachi Line Direct) Ōimachi

[edit] Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Higashi-Rinkan		Odakyu Enoshima Line		Minami-Rinkan
Sagami-Ōno		(Express)		Minami-Rinkan
Sagami-Ōno		(Rapid Express)		Yamato
pass		(Ltd. Express "Romance Car")		pass
Tsukimino		Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line		Terminus
Minami-Machida		(Express on holidays)		Terminus
Nagatsuta		(Express on weekdays)		Terminus

[edit] Exits

[edit] Ticket Gates

• Tokyu-Denentoshi Line - only ticket gate, leading to the east end of the station building. Turn right upon exiting to transfer to the Odakyu line.
• Odakyu Enoshima Line - central exit, leading to the west end of the station building. Turn left upon exiting to transfer to the Denentoshi line.
• Odakyu Enoshima Line - north exit. This is a small, unmanned ticket gate, from the north end of the west platform.

[edit] Station Building Exits

The station building is actually two buildings, with a very small, covered, pedestrian street in the middle

• East exit leading to the station square.
• West exit
• Smaller north and south exits (the pedestrian street)

[edit] History

April 1, 1929 Odakyu Enoshima Line established; station opened as Chūō-Rinkantoshi (中央林間都市, Chūō-Rinkantoshi^?).
October 15, 1941 Renamed to Chūō-Rinkan.
April 9, 1984 Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line extended to Chūō-Rinkan. Chūō-Rinkan is the end-station of the line.

[edit] Local Area

[edit] Local Transportation

• Taxis - there is a taxi stand on the square outside the east side of the station building (near the Denentoshi line ticket gate)
• Public buses - there are no public buses in Chūō-Rinkan.
• Other - the Sagami Country Club, a golf club, has a shuttle bus to the golf club, operating regularly from the Odakyu line north exit.

[edit] Shopping

• Station building - bookstore on the 2nd floor. A pharmacy and several small restaurants on the 1st floor.
• Station East exit - there is a 7-eleven to the right on the station square. Across the square, also reachable by a crosswalk from the 2nd floor, is a Tokyu super-market and department store. Other stores and an internet cafe are nearby.
• Station West exit - The Chūō-Rinkan Nishi-guchi shopping area is up the stairs and to the right, but there are no significant stores.
• Odakyu North exit - There are a cafe, a Family Mart and MosBurger just outside the exit, and an Ozeki supermarket nearby to the left after MosBurger.

[edit] Restaurants

• Darbal - Odakyu north exit - turn left before Family Mart, across the small street, 2nd floor. Real Indian restaurant. Great nan bread. Cold in winter.
• Gyu-taro - Odakyu north exit - turn left before Family Mart, on you left. Japanese yakiniku (fried meat).
• KFC - station building
• MacDonalds - station square (east exit)
• MosBurger - Odakyu north exit
• Rinascente - very good, intimate Italian-French restaurant, in the back room of a clothes store. From the Odakyu north exit, turn left after MosBurger, walk past the Ozeki supermarket and take the next right. One block on your right, with an orange awning
• Kamakurasan - From the Odakyu north exit, turn left after MosBurger, then right before the Ozeki supermarket. On the corner after the next street on the left. Tasty japenese-style beef stew. Famous in Kamakura.
• Kyotaru - station building - sushi take-out
• Semolina - very small, reasonable, one-man Italian restaurant. Normal japanese-style Italian. From the Odakyu north exit, turn left after MosBurger, then right before the Ozeki supermarket. It will be on the left, before the next street.
• Tempura - station building
• Tulley's - station square (east exit) in Tokyu Dept Store, coffee shop.
• Wan - station west exit - izakaya-style restaurant

[edit] Links