Keikyū Tomioka Station

Keikyū Tomioka Station 京急富岡駅
Keikyū Tomioka Station
Location	Tomiokanishi 7-1-1, Kanazawa, Yokohama, Kanagawa （神奈川県横浜市金沢区富岡西七丁目1-1） Japan
Operated by	Keikyū
Line(s)	Keikyū Main Line
Connections	Bus stop
Other information
Station code	KK47
History
Opened	1930
Previous names	Shōnan Tomioka; Keihin Tomioka (until 1963)
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	26,141 daily

Keikyū Tomioka Station (京急富岡駅, Keikyū Tomioka-eki) is a railway station operated by the Keikyū Keikyū Main Line located in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is located 36.7 rail kilometers from the northern terminus of the Keikyū Main Line at Shinagawa Station, in Tokyo.

History

Keikyū Tomioka Station was opened on July 10, 1930 as Shōnan Tomioka Station (湘南富岡駅, Shōnan Tomioka-eki) on the Shōnan Electric Railway, which merged with the Keihin Electric Railway on November 1, 1941. The station closed on January 10, 1947, and reopened on March 1, 1947 exclusively for the use by American occupation forces in Japan. Ordinary Japanese citizens were permitted to use the station again in late 1948. The station was relocated to its present address on December 1, 1955 and renamed Keihin Tomioka Station (京浜富岡駅, Keihin Tomioka-eki) on November 1, 1963. It assumed its present name on June 1, 1987.

Lines

• Keihin Electric Express Railway
  • Keikyū Main Line

Station layout

Keikyū Tomioka Station has a single elevated island platform and single side platform serving three tracks.

Adjacent stations

References

• Miura, Kazuo. Keikyū　Kakuekiteisha to Kamakura Monogatari. Inban Publishing　(1998). ISBN 4-8083-0624-7 (Japanese)

External links

• Keikyu Tomioka Station (Japanese)

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Coordinates: 35°22′00″N 139°37′47″E / 35.3666°N 139.6297°E / 35.3666; 139.6297