Koenji Railway Station

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Kōenji ( 高 円 寺 )
Koenji station southgate 2018.jpg
View from the south (September 2018)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation JC07 / JB06
opening July 15, 1922
location
City / municipality Suginami
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 42 '19 "  N , 139 ° 38' 59"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 42 '19 "  N , 139 ° 38' 59"  E
Height ( SO ) 42  m  TP
Railway lines

JR East

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The Kōenji Station ( Japanese 高 円 寺 駅 , Kōenji-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshū . It is operated by the JR East railway company and is located in the Suginami district of the capital Tokyo .

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Kōenji is a through station on the Chūō main line from Tokyo via Shinjuku to Shiojiri , the tracks of which are identical to those of the Chūō high-speed railway line Tokyo – Shinjuku– Takao . In parallel, the Chūō-Sōbu line runs from Mitaka via Akihabara to Chiba . All three lines are operated by the JR East railway company. Between Mitaka and Nakano the SOBU Chuo-line is underground trains on the company Tokyo Metro shared leading to the Tozai-line by Nishi Funabashi- and Tsudanuma by bound are.

On the Chuo train line holding Kakueki-Teisha -Nahverkehrszüge and Kaisoku - fast trains . The starting points of these national connections are usually Tokyo in the east and Takao and Ōtsuki in the west. Some of these trains run beyond Ōtsuki to Kawaguchiko or switch to the Ōme line in Tachikawa . During the day nine connections per hour are offered, during rush hour the train sequence can be two minutes. On weekends, all of the trains mentioned run through without stopping. Local traffic through the inner Tokyo suburbs is handled on the Chūō-Sōbu line, which has its own tracks and is operationally independent of the other two lines. During rush hour, the train sequence is two minutes, with several trains running further west to Musashi-Koganei and only turning there. During the day, nine trains are offered every hour. Except during the morning rush hour and in the late evening, up to five subways of the Tōzai line run every hour via the nominal terminus Nakano to Mitaka.

The bus stops on the northern forecourt are operated by eight lines from the companies Kantō Bus , Keiō Bus Azuma and Kokusaikyōgyō Bus , and on the southern forecourt by three other lines.

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The station is on the border of the districts of Kōenji-kita and Kōenji-minami. The system, located on a viaduct, faces east to west and has four tracks, all of which are used for passenger traffic. These are located on two covered central platforms . The two-storey station building is arranged under the viaduct and is accessible from both sides. Elevators and escalators lead up to the platforms. Restaurants and shops are available outside the platform gates. The north entrance is connected to the neighboring Hotel Mets .

In the 2018 fiscal year, an average of 51,763 passengers used the station every day.

Tracks

Platforms (September 2019)
1 ▉  Chūō-Sōbu line Mitaka
Line color Tōzai line through-bound trains to Mitaka
2 ▉  Chūō-Sōbu line Nakano • Shinjuku • Akihabara • Nishi-Funabashi • Chiba
Line color Tōzai line Looped trains to Nakano • Iidabashi • Ōtemachi • Nishi-Funabashi • Tsudanuma
3 ▉  Chūō rapid transit line Mitaka • Tachikawa • Hachiōji • Takao
4th ▉  Chūō rapid transit line Nakano • Shinjuku • Tokyo

history

The private railway company Kōbu Tetsudō had opened the section between Shinjuku and Tachikawa as early as 1889, but the trains initially ran without stopping for over three decades. On June 15, 1922, the Ministry of Railways opened the Kōenji station, where it refrained from handling goods from the start. During an air raid on Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces on May 25, 1945, the station burned down completely, whereupon an emergency rehabilitation had to be carried out; it was not completely renovated until 1952.

On September 22nd, 1964, the Japanese State Railways began converting the two-track station, which had previously been at ground level, into a four-track system in an elevated position. The work continued until 3 April 1966 on 28 April of the same year by taking Nakano after Ogikubo extended Chūō-Sōbu Line starts running. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 . In March 2006, JR East changed its appearance and introduced new signage. One year later, the renovation work ended on the north exit, which has since served as the entrance to the newly built Hotel Mets .

Adjacent train stations

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 Lines
→
Nakano Chūō rapid transit line Chūō Rapid Train Line
(Monday – Friday only)
JR East 		Asagaya
Nakano Chūō-Sōbu Line JR East Chūō-Sōbu Line
 Asagaya

Web links

Commons : Kōenji Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JR 時刻表 2019 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2019). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2019.
  2. ↑ 各 駅 の 乗車 人員. JR East , 2018, accessed November 17, 2019 (Japanese).