Atsugi Station

Atsugi Station (厚木駅, Atsugi-eki) is a railway station in Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan, jointly operated by Odakyu Electric Railway and East Japan Railway Company (JR East).


Atsugi Station

厚木駅
Exit of Odakyu Atsugi Station
LocationKawaharaguchi, Ebina, Kanagawa
（神奈川県海老名市河原口）
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections
  • Bus terminal
History
Opened1926
Passengers
FY20086,371 (JR East)
20,246 (Odakyu) daily
Services
Preceding station   JR East   Following station
toward Chigasaki
Sagami Line
toward Hashimoto
Odakyu
Terminus
Odawara Line
Commuter Semi Express
toward Isehara
Odawara Line
Semi Express
Odawara Line
Local

Lines

Atsugi Station is served by the Sagami Line and the Odakyu Odawara Line.

The station is 44.1 rail kilometers from the Odawara Line's terminal at Shinjuku Station and 14.2 rail kilometers from the Sagami Line's terminus at Chigasaki Station.

Station layout

Odakyu Atsugi Station has two opposed side platforms with two tracks, connected to the station building by an overpass. The JR Sagami Line Atsugi Station has a single side platform, serving one track.

Odakyu
1 ■ Odakyu Odawara Line for Hon-Atsugi, Shin-Matsuda, and Odawara
2 ■ Odakyu Odawara Line for Sagami-Ōno, Shin-Yurigaoka, Yoyogi-Uehara, Chiyoda line Ayase, and Shinjuku

JR East
1 ■ Sagami Line for Hashimoto, Samukawa, and Chigasaki

Station history

Atsugi Station was opened on May 12, 1926, as the terminus of Jinchū Railroad (神中鉄道), now Sagami Railway). Despite being located in neighboring Ebina, the station was named “Atsugi” to fulfill a pledge by the railway management to build a railroad “to Atsugi”. The Sotetsu Railway (currently the JR Sagami Line) linked to the station on July 15, 1926. On April 1, 1927, the Odakyu Electric Railway built the adjacent Kawaharaguchi Station (河原口駅). With the completion of Ebina Station on the Jinchū Railroad on November 25, 1941, operations to Atsugi were discontinued. Atsugi Station of newly nationalized Sagami Line and Kawaharaguchi Station were joined into the same station building on June 1, 1944. A new station building was opened on July 31, 1971.

Surrounding area

The nearest railway station from US Naval Air Facility Atsugi is Sagami-Ōtsuka Station, not Atsugi Station.

References

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