Kodaira Station

Kodaira Station 小平駅
Platform 1/2 at Kodaira station, facing north
Location
Prefecture	Tokyo (See other stations in Tokyo)
City	Kodaira
History
Year opened	1927
Rail services
Operator(s)	Seibu Railway
Line(s)	Seibu Haijima Line, Seibu Shinjuku Line
There is a bus stop near this station

Kodaira Station (小平駅, Kodaira-eki) is a railway station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line and its branch, the Haijima Line, in the city of Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan.

Platforms

The station has two island platforms facing four tracks.

• Track 1 is bound for Tamagawa Jōsui and other stations on the Seibu Haijima Line.
• Track 2 heads north towards Tokorozawa and ultimately ends at Hon-Kawagoe Station.
• Tracks 3 and 4 head east towards Tanashi, Takadanobaba, and other stations on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Hana-Koganei		Seibu Shinjuku Line		Kumegawa
Terminus		Seibu Haijima Line		Hagiyama

Neighborhood and Location

Kodaira Station has South and North Exits. Near the South Exit are the Kodaira Seiyu Department Store, a public building named Rune, a high school run by the government of Tokyo, and, about 1.75 km distant, Shin-Kodaira Station on the JR Musashino Line. The North Exit is convenient to the Kodaira Metropolitan Cemetery and to McDonald's.

History

The station opened on April 16, 1927. In 1928, the adjacent Moto-Kodaira Station opened. They were joined in 1949.

Services

Trains run from this station 0505-0120 Weekdays, 0505-0045 Weekends.

The typical off-peak service is:

Shinjuku Line 'up'

• 14 trains an hour in the Seibu-Shinjuku direction, of which:
  • 2 are Haijima Rapids to Seibu-Shinjuku (Tanashi, Kami-shakujii, Sagimoniya, Takadanobaba, Seibu-Shinjuku)
  • 2 are Expresses to Seibu-Shinjuku (all stations to Tanashi, Kami-Shakujii, Saginomiya, Takadanobaba, Seibu-Shinjuku)
  • 2 are Semi-Expresses to Seibu-Shinjuku (all stations to Kami-Shakujii, Saginomiya, Takadanobaba, Seibu-Shinjuku)
  • 6 are Locals to Seibu-Shinjuku
  • 2 are Locals to Tanashi

Shinjuku Line 'down'

• 6 Local trains to Shin-Tokorozawa
  • of which 5 continue to Hon-Kawagoe

Haijima Line 'down'

• 11 trains an hour, of which:
  • 6 are Locals to Tamagawa-Jōsui
    • of which 2 continue to Haijima
  • 2 are Haijima Rapids to Haijima (Tamagawa-Jōsui, then all stations)
  • 3 are Locals to Seibu-Yūenchi, running through to the Seibu Tamako Line at Hagiyama (these trains start here).

Source

This article contains material translated from 小平駅 (Kodaira Station) in the Japanese Wikipedia, accessed June 17, 2008.

External links

• Seibu Railway page on Kodaira Station