Kanazawa-Hakkei Station
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Kanazawa-Hakkei Station
金沢八景駅
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| Location | |
| Prefecture | Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa) |
| City | Yokohama |
| Ward | Kanazawa |
| Neighborhood etc. | Seto 15-1 |
| Postal Code | 236-0027 |
| (in Japanese) | 横浜市金沢区瀬戸15番地1号 |
| History | |
| Year opened | 1930 |
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| Station number(s) | KK50 |
| Operator(s) | Keikyu |
| Line(s) | Keikyū Main Line |
| Statistics | 54,173 (Keikyu) passengers/day 2008 |
 There is a bus stop near this station |
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Kanazawa-Hakkei Station (金沢八景駅 Kanazawa-Hakkei-eki) is a junction railway station in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by Keikyu.
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[edit] Lines
Kanazawa-Hakkei Station is served by the Keikyū Main Line and is located 40.9 rail kilometers from the northern terminus of the Keikyū Main Line at Shinagawa Station, in Tokyo. It is also a terminal station for both the Keikyū Zushi Line and the Kanazawa Seaside Line.
[edit] Station layout
Kanazawa-Hakkei Station is an elevated station with two island platforms serving four tracks. Track 4 is dual-gauge (1,067 mm narrow gauge and 1,435 mm standard gauge) to allow narrow-gauge rolling stock to be moved at night from the nearby Tokyu Car Corporation factory to JR tracks via Zushi Station.
[edit] Keikyu platforms
| 1 | ■Keikyu Main Line | for Yokosuka Chūō, Uraga, and Misakiguchi |
| 2 | ■Keikyu Main Lin | for Yokosuka Chūō, Uraga, and Misakiguchi |
| ■Keikyu Zushi Line | for Shin-Zushi | |
| 3 | ■Keikyū Main Line | for Yokohama, Shinagawa, Haneda Airport, and Oshiage |
| 2 | ■Keikyu Main Lin | for Yokohama, Shinagawa, Haneda Airport, and Oshiage |
| ■Keikyu Zushi Line | for Shin-Zushi |
[edit] Kanazawa Seaside Line platforms
The Kanazawa Seaside Line station is located south of the Keikyu station, and is an elevated single track, single side platform station for bi-directional traffic. The Kanazawa Seaside Line station is a temporary station, with plans in place to extend to connect directly to the existing Keikyu station at some point in the future.
| 1 | ■Kanazawa Seaside Line | for Hakkeijima, Torihama, and Shin-Sugita |
[edit] Adjacent stations
| « | Service | » | ||
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| Keikyū Main Line | ||||
| Kanazawa-Bunko | Local | Oppama | ||
| Kanazawa-Bunko | Airport Express | Mutsuura (Zushi Line) |
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| Kanazawa-Bunko | Ltd. Express | Oppama | ||
| Kanazawa-Bunko | Rapid Ltd. Express | Yokosuka-Chūō | ||
| Kanazawa-Bunko | Keikyu Wing | Yokosuka-Chūō | ||
| Keikyū Zushi Line | ||||
| Kanazawa-Bunko (Main Line) |
Local | Mutsuura | ||
| Kanazawa-Bunko (Main Line) |
Airport Express | Mutsuura | ||
| Kanazawa-Bunko (Main Line) |
Ltd. Express | Mutsuura | ||
| Kanazawa Seaside Line | ||||
| Nojimakōen | - | Terminus | ||
[edit] History
Kanazawa-Hakkei Station was opened on April 1, 1930 as a station on the Shonan Electric Railway, which merged with the Keihin Electric Railway in 1941.The station was rebuilt in July 1987.
The name Kanazawa Hakkei (lit. Eight Views of Kanazawa) is taken from the name of a series of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, of eight places in the area, which were made between 1835 and 1836, by Ando Hiroshige.
[edit] References
- Miura, Kazuo. Keikyū Kakuekiteisha to Kamakura Monogatari. Inban Publishing (1998). ISBN 4-8083-0624-7 (Japanese)
[edit] External links
- Keikyū Kanazawa-Hakkei Station (Japanese)
35°19′52″N 139°37′13″E / 35.33114722°N 139.6201611°ECoordinates: 35°19′52″N 139°37′13″E / 35.33114722°N 139.6201611°E (Keikyū), 35°19′52″N 139°37′21″E / 35.33123056°N 139.6224806°E (Yokohama New Transit)
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