Bentembashi Station

Bentembashi Station
弁天橋駅
Bentembashi Station in 2005
Location
Prefecture Kanagawa
(See other stations in Kanagawa)
City Yokohama
Ward Tsurumi
Neighborhood etc. Suehirochō 1-chōme
Postal code230-0045
(in Japanese)横浜市鶴見区末広町1丁目
History
Year opened 1930
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Tsurumi Line
Statistics 5,416 passengers/day [1]
There is a bus stop near this station

Bentembashi Station (弁天橋駅 Bentenbashi-eki) is a railway station operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Lines

Bentembashi Station is served by the Tsurumi Line, and is located 2.4 kilometers from the terminus at Tsurumi Station.

Station layout

Bentembashi Station has an island platform serving two tracks.

Platforms

1 Tsurumi Line for Hama-Kawasaki, Ōgimachi, Umi-Shibaura, and Ōkawa
2 Tsurumi Line for Tsurumi-Ono and Tsurumi

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Tsurumi Line
Tsurumi-Ono Main Line Asano

History

Bentembashi Station was opened on March 10, 1926 as the initial terminal station on the privately held Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (鶴見臨港鉄道 Tsurumi Rinkō Tetsudō) and initially for freight operations only. Passenger services started from October 28, 1930 when the line was extended to Tsurumi Station. The Tsurumi Rinkō line was nationalized on July 1, 1943, and was later absorbed into the Japan National Railways (JNR) network. The station has been unstaffed since March 1, 1971. Upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987 the station has been operated by JR East.

References

  1. City of Yokohama statistics (2008). Counting boarding passengers only.

External links

Media related to Bentenbashi Station at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 35°29′45″N 139°41′23″E / 35.495972°N 139.68975°E