Musashi-Nakahara Station


Musashi-Nakahara Station 武蔵中原駅
Musashi-Nakahara Station, November 2011
Location
Prefecture	Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa)
City	Kawasaki
Ward	Nakahara
Neighborhood etc.	6 Kami-Kodanaka
Postal code	211-0053
(in Japanese)	神奈川県川崎市中原区上小田中6丁目
History
Year opened	1927
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East
Line(s)	Nambu Line
Statistics	31,396 passengers/day (FY2008)
Medium bus terminal at this station

Musashi-Nakahara Station (武蔵中原駅, Musashi-Nakahara-eki) is a railway station on the Nambu Line in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Musashi-Nakahara Station is served by the Nambu Line, and is located 9.2 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kawasaki Station.

Station layout

View of the platforms, November 2011

The station is staffed and consists of two island platforms serving four tracks. Platforms 2 and 3 are used for trains starting from Musashi-Nakahara, as their tracks in the opposite direction lead to Nakahara Depot.

Platforms

1,2	■Nambu Line	for Musashi-Kosugi, Yakō, and Kawasaki
3,4	■Nambu Line	for Musashi-Mizonokuchi, Noborito, and Tachikawa

Facilities

Kiosks
Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office
Automatic ticket gates

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Nambu Line
Musashi-Kosugi	Rapid	Musashi-Shinjō
Musashi-Kosugi	Local	Musashi-Shinjō

History

Musashi-Nakahara Station opened as a station on the Nambu Railway on March 9, 1927. The Nambu Railway was nationalized on April 1, 1944, becoming part of the Japanese Government Railway (JGR) system, which became the Japanese National Railways (JNR) from 1946. Freight operations were discontinued from January 16, 1961. Along with privatization and division of JNR, JR East started operating the station on April 1, 1987. The station was rebuilt in 1990, moving 200 meters towards Musashi-Kosugi Station, and with the tracks becoming elevated.