Higashi-Hannō Station

Higashi-Hannō Station
東飯能駅
West entrance, May 2006
Location
Prefecture Saitama
(See other stations in Saitama)
City Hannō
Neighborhood etc. 1-5 Azuma-chō
Postal code357-0034
(in Japanese)埼玉県飯能市東町1丁目
History
Year opened 1931
Rail services
Station number(s) SI27
Operator(s) JR East, Seibu Railway
Line(s) Hachikō Line, Seibu Ikebukuro Line
Statistics 5,505 (JR East, boarding only), 5,478 (Seibu) passengers/day (FY2012), (FY2013)

Higashi-Hannō Station (東飯能駅 Higashi-Hannō-eki) is a railway station in Hannō, Saitama, Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Seibu Railway.

Lines

Higashi-Hannō Station is served by the JR Hachikō Line from Hachiōji with many services running to and from Kawagoe on the Kawagoe Line. It is also served by the Seibu Ikebukuro Line from Ikebukuro in Tokyo.

Station layout

View of the Seibu platform, August 2009

The station consists of one side platform for Seibu services, serving a single bidirectional track, and one island platform for JR East services serving two tracks. Both platforms are at ground level.

Platforms

1 Seibu Ikebukuro Line for Hannō, Tokorozawa, and Ikebukuro
Seibu Ikebukuro Line for Agano and Seibu Chichibu
2 Hachikō Line for Komagawa and Kawagoe
3 Hachikō Line for Haijima and Hachiōji

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Hachikō Line
Kaneko   Local   Komagawa
Seibu Ikebukuro Line
Chichibu limited express: no stop
Hannō   Rapid express   Koma
Hannō   Local   Koma

History

The station opened on December 10, 1931 as a joint station of Japanese Government Railways and the Musashino Railway (present-day Seibu).[1]

Station numbering was introduced on all Seibu Railway lines during fiscal 2012, with Higashi-Hannō Station becoming "SI27".[2]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the station was the 79th busiest on the Seibu network with an average of 5,478 passengers daily.[3] In fiscal 2012, an average of 5,505 passengers used the JR East station to board a train per day.[4]

The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below. Note that the figures for JR East consider only boarding passengers whereas those for Seibu consider both boarding and disembarking passengers.

Fiscal year Daily average
JR East Seibu
2009 5,733[4] 5,305[5]
2010 5,599[4] 5,351[5]
2011 5,422[4] 5,213[6]
2012 5,505[4] 5,338[3]
2013 5,478[3]

References

  1. Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 201. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
  2. 西武線全駅で駅ナンバリングを導入します [Station numbering to be introduced at all Seibu stations] (pdf). News Release (in Japanese). Japan: Seibu Railway. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 駅別乗降人員 2013(平成25)年度 1日平均 [Average daily station usage figures (fiscal 2013)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Seibu Railway. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 各駅の乗車人員 [Boarding figures of each station] (in Japanese). East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  5. 5.0 5.1 駅別乗降人員 2010(平成22)年度 1日平均 [Average daily station usage figures (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Seibu Railway. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  6. 駅別乗降人員 2011(平成23)年度 1日平均 [Average daily station usage figures (fiscal 2011)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Seibu Railway. Retrieved 25 June 2014.

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Coordinates: 35°51′10″N 139°19′33″E / 35.852664°N 139.325939°E