Motosumiyoshi Station

Motosumiyoshi Station 元住吉駅
Platform
Location
Prefecture	Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa)
City	Kawasaki
Ward	Nakahara
Neighborhood etc.	Kizuki 1-36-1
Postal code	211-0025
(in Japanese)	神奈川県川崎市中原区木月一丁目36番1号
History
Year opened	1926
Rail services
Operator(s)	Tokyu Corporation
Line(s)	Tōyoko Line
Statistics	62,149 passengers/day (2008)
There is a bus stop near this station

Motosumiyoshi Station (元住吉駅, Motosumiyoshi-eki) is a railway station on the Tokyu Corporation's Tōyoko Line in Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 12.1 kilometers from the terminus of the Tōyoko Line at Shibuya Station and 10.4 kilometers from the terminus of the Meguro Line at Meguro Station.

History

Motosumiyoshi Station opened as one of the original Tōyoko Line stations on February 14, 1926. The station was rebuilt as an underground station (ticket gates were underground and platforms were on the ground) in 1963, but was totally reconstructed in 2006 as an elevated above-ground station.

On February 15, 2014 at around 12:30 a.m., a collision of two Tōyoko Line trains occurred on the Yokohama-bound track at the station. By the accident, 19 passengers were suffered with light injuries. The cause of the accident was supposedly the heavy snow that resulted in lack of braking force.^[1]

Lines

This station is served by following lines:

• Tokyu Corporation
  • Tōyoko Line
  • Meguro Line

Motosumiyoshi Station Track Layout
Legend ↑Musashi-Kosugi Station (6) 5 4 3 2 (1) ↓Hiyoshi Station

Station layout

Motosumiyoshi Station has two island platforms with six tracks. The outermost tracks 1 and 6 are for through passage of express traffic.

For Passing	■Tōyoko Line	Used for express services or faster
2	■Toyoko Line	Hiyoshi・Kikuna・Yokohama ・Minatomirai ・ Motomachi-Chūkagai
3	■Meguro Line	Hiyoshi
4	■Meguro Line	Musashi-Kosugi ・ Ōokayama ・ Meguro (Tokyo Metro Namboku Line) Akabane-Iwabuchi, (Saitama Rapid Railway Line) Urawa-Misono (Toei Mita Line) Nishi-Takashimadaira
5	■Tōyoko Line	Musashi-Kosugi ・ Jiyūgaoka ・Shibuya・ Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for Kotake-Mukaihara and Wakōshi
For Passing	■Toyoko Line	Used for express services or faster

Adjacent stations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Motosumiyoshi Station.

• Tokyu station information (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°33′52″N 139°39′15″E / 35.564315°N 139.654046°E / 35.564315; 139.654046