Kameari Station

Kameari Station
亀有駅
North entrance
Location
Prefecture Tokyo
(See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward Katsushika
Neighborhood etc. Kameari 3-chōme
(in Japanese) 東京都葛飾区亀有3丁目
History
Year opened 1897
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Jōban Line

Kameari Station (亀有駅 Kameari-eki?) is a JR East railway station located in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan.

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Lines

The station is served by the Jōban Line.

Station layout

There is an island platform with two tracks for local services. The express (rapid) tracks run parallel to the local tracks but do not have platform at this station.

1 Jōban Line (Local) MatsudoKashiwaAbikoToride
2 Jōban Line (Rapid) Kita-Senju ・ (via Chiyoda Line Nishi-NipporiYoyogi-Uehara

History

The station opened on 17 May 1897.

Around the station

The koban located at the north entrance of the train station is known as a model of a koban in Osamu Akimoto's long-run manga Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo. The police cartoon stages in Kameari area where the train station is situated. As a tribute to the cartoon, two statues of the officer Kankichi Ryotsu, the main character of the series, were placed near north and south entrances of the train station in 2006.

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