Kawakado Station

Kawakado Station
川角駅
Kawakado Station entrance, September 2009
Location
Prefecture Saitama
(See other stations in Saitama)
District Iruma
Town Moroyama
Neighborhood etc. 289-2 Shimogawara
Postal Code 350-0435
(in Japanese) 入間郡毛呂山町下川原289-2
History
Year opened 1934
Rail services
Operator(s) Tobu Railway
Line(s) Tōbu Ogose Line
Statistics 14,496 passengers/day (FY2010)

Kawakado Station (川角駅 Kawakado-eki?), is a railway station in Moroyama, Saitama, Japan, operated by Tobu Railway.[1]

Contents

Lines

Kawakado Station is served by the Tōbu Ogose Line from Sakado to Ogose, and is situated 5.6 km from Sakado.[2] During the daytime, the station is served by four trains per hour in each direction.[3]

Station layout

The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks forming a passing loop on the single-track line. The station entrance is located on the northern (Sakado-bound) side of the station. Lifts were added in 2009.

Platforms

1 ■Tōbu Ogose Line For Ogose
2 ■Tōbu Ogose Line For Sakado

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Tōbu Ogose Line
Nishi-Ōya   Local   Bushū-Nagase

History

The station opened on 16 December 1934, initially as an unstaffed station. It became a staffed station on 17 May 1965.[2] A second platform and passing loop was added in August 1987.

Platform edge sensors and TV monitors were installed in 2008 ahead of the start of driver-only operation on the Ogose Line from June 2008.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 14,496 passengers daily.[4]

Surrounding area

The station is close to the campuses of three universites: Josai University, Meikai University (Sakado Campus), and Nihon Institute of Medical Science. The large number of students using the line makes this station the busiest on the Ogose Line second only to Sakado Station.[5] The station is also close to the Saitama Heisei Junior and Senior High Schools.

See also

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kawakado_Station Kawakado Station] at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ^ Kawakado Station information. Retrieved on 30 September 2009 (Japanese)
  2. ^ a b Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 200. ISBN 4-87366-874-3. 
  3. ^ Tōbu Tōjō Line Timetable, published March 2011
  4. ^ "駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information (Passenger statistics)]" (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. http://www.tobu.co.jp/rail/frail_2_2.html. Retrieved 15 December 2011. 
  5. ^ "Your Tōbu" February 2009 issue, No. 290

External links

Stations of the Tōbu Ogose Line