Aikō-Ishida Station

Aikō-Ishida Station 愛甲石田駅
North Exit of Aikō-Ishida Station, 2008
General information
Location	Aikō, Atsugi, Kanagawa （神奈川県厚木市愛甲） Japan
Operated by	Odakyu Electric Railway
Line(s)	Odakyu Odawara Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1927
Passengers
2008	49,005 daily
Services
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Aikō-Ishida Station (愛甲石田駅, Aikō-Ishida-eki) is a railway station on the Odakyu Electric Railway’s Odakyu Odawara Line in the city of Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Part of the station physically extends into neighboring Isehara city. The station is 48.5 rail kilometers from the line’s terminal at Shinjuku Station.

Station history

Aikō-Ishida Station was opened on April 1, 1927, on the Odakyu Odawara Line of the Odakyu Electric Railway with normal and 6-car limited express services. A limited number of romancecar express trains began serving the station from 1987, the same year that the new station building was completed.

The station was named after Aikō, Atsugi and adjacent Ishida, Isehara.

Lines

• Odakyu Electric Railway
  • Odawara Line

Bus connections

• There is a bus to Shoin University which takes 15 minutes during off-peak traffic.

Building

Aikō-Ishida Station has two opposed side platforms with two tracks, connected to the station building by an overpass. The station building is built on a cantilever extending on top and at right angles to the rails and platforms.

Platforms

1	■ Odakyu Odawara Line	Westbound (For Shin-Matsuda, and Odawara)
2	■ Odakyu Odawara Line	Eastbound (For Sagami-Ono, Shin-Yurigaoka, Yoyogi-Uehara, Chiyoda line Ayase, and Shinjuku)

Surrounding area

• Amada Co

References

• This article contains a translation of items from the equivalent page on the Japanese language Wikipedia.

External links

• Aikō-Ishida Station (Odakyū) (in Japanese)