Hirama Station


Hirama Station 平間駅
Hirama Station entrance in November 2011
Location
Prefecture	Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa)
City	Kawasaki
Ward	Nakahara
Neighborhood etc.	Tajiri-chō
Postal code	211-0014
(in Japanese)	神奈川県川崎市中原区田尻町
History
Year opened	1927
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East
Line(s)	Nambu Line
Statistics	14,303 passengers/day (FY2008)
There is a bus stop near this station

Hirama Station (平間駅, Hirama-eki) is a railway station on the Nambu Line in Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Hirama Station is served by the Nambu Line from Kawasaki to Tachikawa, and lies 5.3 km from the southern terminus of the Nambu Line at Kawasaki.

Station layout

Hirama Station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected by a footbridge.

Platforms

1	■Nambu Line	for Kawasaki
2	■Nambu Line	for Musashi-Kosugi, Musashi-Mizonokuchi, Noborito, and Tachikawa

Facilities

Kiosk
Lavatory
Automatic ticket barriers

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Nambu Line
Rapid: no stop
Kashimada	Local	Mukaigawara

History

Hirama Station opened as a station on the Nambu Railway on March 9, 1927. The stop was upgraded to become a full station along with nationalization of Nambu Railway on April 1, 1944, into the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) system, which became part of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) from 1949. Along with privatization and division of JNR, JR East started operating the station on April 1, 1987.