Kikuna Station

Kikuna 菊名
Kikuna Station East Exit
Location	Kikuna 7-chome, Kōhoku, Yokohama, Kanagawa （神奈川県 横浜市港北区菊名７丁目） Japan
Operated by	JR East, Tokyu Corporation
Line(s)	Yokohama Line, Tōkyū Tōyoko Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1926
Traffic
Passengers (2008 [1])	49,566 (JR) 127,268 (Tōkyū ) daily

Kikuna Station (菊名駅, Kikuna-eki) is a commuter railway station on the East Japan Railway Company's Yokohama Line and on the Tokyu Corporation’s Tōkyū Tōyoko Line located in Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 4.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Yokohama Line at Higashi-Kanagawa Station and 18.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line at Shibuya Station.

History

Kikuna Station was opened on February 14, 1926 as a station on the privately held Tokyo-Yokohama Railway Company (the predecessor to the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line). The Japanese Government Railways (the predecessor to the JNR) began operations to Kikuna on September 1 of the same year. All freight operations were suspended from 1970. In 1972, Tōkyū Tōyoko Line portion of the station was rebuilt, with new elevated tracks and a new station building; however, the tracks remained unused until the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line connected to the station in 1988 (which was then discontinued on 15 March 2013 when the Daikan-yama to Shibuya section of Tōkyū Tōyoko Line was moved to underground and with through running to Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line began). With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the JNR portion of the station came under the operational control of JR East. The Tōkyū Tōyoko Line platforms were lengthened in 1991 to accommodate seven-car trains; with through running with Fukutoshin Line, the platforms were lengthened again to accommodate ten-car trains.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Yokohama Line
• Tokyu Corporation
  • Tōkyū Tōyoko Line

Through services operate to/from Shibuya Station via the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line.

Station layout

JR Kikuna Station has a single island platform serving two elevated tracks, connected to the station building and the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line by an underpass. Tōkyū Tōyoko Kikuna Station has two island platforms serving four tracks.

JR East platforms

Tokyu platforms

3-4	■Tōkyū Tōyoko Line	Yokohama, (Minatomirai Line) Minatomirai, Motomachi-Chūkagai
5	■Tōkyū Tōyoko Line	Musashi-Kosugi, Jiyūgaoka, Naka-Meguro, Shibuya Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for Kotake-Mukaihara and Wakōshi
6	■Tōkyū Tōyoko Line	Musashi-Kosugi, Jiyūgaoka, Shibuya

Adjacent stations

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kikuna Station.

• JR Kikuna Station (JR East)(Japanese)
• Tokyu Station (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°30′35″N 139°37′53″E / 35.50972°N 139.63139°E / 35.50972; 139.63139