Kamakura Station

Kamakura Station 鎌倉駅
JR Kamakura Station
Location
Prefecture	Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa)
City	Kamakura
Neighborhood etc.	1-1-1 Komachi
Postal Code	248-0006
(in Japanese)	神奈川県鎌倉市小町一丁目1-1
History
Year opened	1889
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East
Line(s)	Yokosuka Line
Statistics	40,374 passengers/day 2008
There is a bus stop near this station

Enoden Kamakura Station

Kamakura Station (鎌倉駅, Kamakura-eki ) is a railway station in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Kamakura Station is served by the Yokosuka Line and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line. It is located 4.5 km from the junction at Ōfuna Station, and 53.9 km from Tokyo Station. It is also the terminal station for the Enoshima Electric Railway, whose station is adjacent.

Station layout

JR Kamakura Station has a single island platform connected to the station building by two underpasses. The Enoshima Electric Railway has a ground-level bay platform.

JR platforms

	■Yokosuka Line	for Zushi, Yokosuka, and Kurihama
2	■Yokosuka Line	for Ōfuna, Yokohama, Tokyo, (Sōbu Line (Rapid)) Chiba, Narutō, (Sotobō Line) Kazusa-Ichinomiya, (Uchibō Line) Kimitsu, (Narita Line) Narita Airport, and (Kashima Line) Kashima-Jingū
	■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line	for Ōfuna, Yokohama, Shinjuku, Ōmiya, and Utsunomiya

Enoshima Electric Railway platforms

	■Enoshima Electric Railway	for Hase, Enoshima, and Fujisawa
	■Enoshima Electric Railway	Alighting passengers only
	■Enoshima Electric Railway	for Hase, Enoshima, Fujisawa

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Kita-Kamakura		Yokosuka Line		Zushi
Kita-Kamakura		Shōnan-Shinjuku Line		Zushi
Wadazuka		Enoshima Electric Railway		Terminus

History

Kamakura Station opened on June 16 1889 as a station on a spur line from Ōfuna on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR) to serve the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and related Imperial Japanese Navy facilities at Yokosuka. This line was renamed the Yokosuka Line in October 1909. The terminus of the Enoshima Electric Railway was relocated to Kamakura Station on March 1, 1949. All freight operations were stopped in 1962. The station building was rebuilt in October 1984. The station came under the management of JR East upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

References

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

External links

• Kamakura Station information (Japanese)
• Enoden website (Japanese)