Shitte Station

This article is about the station in Kanagawa Prefecture. For the freight terminal in Ibaraki Prefecture, see Shitte Freight Terminal.

Shitte Station 尻手駅
Station building, September 2008
Location
Prefecture	Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa)
City	Kawasaki
Ward	Saiwai
Neighborhood etc.	Minami-Saiwaichō 3-chōme
Postal Code	212-0016
(in Japanese)	神奈川県川崎市幸区南幸町３丁目
History
Year opened	1927
Rail services
Operator(s)	East Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Nambu Line Nambu Branch Line
Statistics	11,667 passengers/day 2008
There is a bus stop near this station

Shitte Station (尻手駅, Shitte-eki) is an interchange railway station operated by JR East's Nambu Line located in Saiwai Ward of eastern Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. It is 1.7 kilometers from the terminus of the Nambu Line at Kawasaki Station, and is the terminal station of the Nambu Branch Line.

History

Shitte Station opened as Shitte Stop (尻手停留場, Shitte-Teiryūjō) on the Nambu Railway on March 9, 1927. The stop was raised in status to that of a full station in 1929. The Nambu Branch Line began operations from 1930. The Nambu Railway was nationalized on April 1, 1944, becoming part of into the Japanese Government Railway (JGR) system, which became the Japanese National Railways (JNR) from 1949. An all freight spur line was initiated from 1972 to the Shin-Tsurumi Freight Terminal. Along with privatization and division of JNR, JR East started operating the station on April 1, 1987.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Nambu Line
  • Nambu Branch Line

Station layout

Shitte Station has a single side platform and an island platform serving three elevated tracks, connected by an underpass. The station is attended.

1	■Nambu Line	Kawasaki
2	■Nambu Line	Musashi-Kosugi ・ Musashi-Mizonokuchi ・ Noborito ・ Tachikawa
3	■Nambu Branch Line	Hatchōnawate ・ Hama-Kawasaki

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Nambu Line
Kawasaki		Local	Yakō
Nambu Branch Line
Terminus		Local	Hatchōnawate

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7
• Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998) (in Japanese). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 65, 69, vol. II. ISBN 4533029809. 

External links

• (Japanese) JR East Station info