Minami-Hashimoto Station

Minami-Hashimoto Station
南橋本駅
Location
Prefecture Kanagawa
(See other stations in Kanagawa)
City Sagamihara
Ward Chūō
Neighborhood etc. Minami Hashimoto 2-chome 19-23
Postal code252-0253
(in Japanese)神奈川県相模原市中央区南橋本二丁目4-17
History
Year opened 1932
Former name Sagamimachi Station
Present name since 1944
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Sagami Line
Statistics 5,443 passengers/day (2008)
There is a bus stop near this station

Minami-Hashimoto Station (南橋本駅 Minami-Hashimoto-eki) is a train station in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 31.3 rail kilometers from the terminal station of the Sagami Line, Chigasaki.　

History

Minami-Hashimoto Station was opened on November 1, 1932, as Okawara Siding (大河原停留場 Okawara teiryūjō), a rail siding on the Sagami Railway. It was renamed Sagamimachi Siding (相模町停留場 Sagamimachi teiryūjō) in 1940. On April 1, 1941, it was elevated in status to a Sagamimachi Station (相模町駅 Sagamimachi-eki). On June 1, 1944, the Sagami Railway was nationalized and merged with the Japanese Government Railways, at which time the station received its current name. On April 1, 1987, with the dissolution and privatization of the Japanese National Railways, the station came under the operation of JR East. Scheduled freight services were discontinued from 1996. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC card system came into operation from November 2001. The station building was complexly rebuilt in 2006.

Line

Minami-Hashimoto Station is served by the following line:

Station layout

The station consists of a single island platform, connected to a modern station building by an overpass. Platforms

1 ■ JR Sagami Line Trains in the direction of Hashimoto
2 ■ JR Sagami Line Trains in the direction of Chigasaki

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Kamimizo   JR Sagami Line   Hashimoto

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Coordinates: 35°34′49″N 139°21′09″E / 35.580281°N 139.352442°E