Kumagaya Railway Station

Kumagaya Railway Station
North entrance of Kumagaya Station
Data
Design	Through station
abbreviation	ク マ ( KU-MA )
opening	July 28, 1883
location
City / municipality	Kumagaya
prefecture	Saitama
Country	Japan
Coordinates	36 ° 8 '23 "  N , 139 ° 23' 24"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 8 '23 "  N , 139 ° 23' 24"  E
Railway lines
JR Jōetsu Shinkansen Nagano Shinkansen Takasaki line Chichibu Tetsudo Chichibu main line
List of train stations in Japan

The Kumagaya Train Station ( Japanese 熊 谷 駅 , Kumagaya-eki ) is located in Kumagaya in Saitama Prefecture . The station is an important railway junction .

Lines

Kumagaya is served by the following lines:

• East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
  • JR East Jōetsu Shinkansen (上 越 新 幹線)
  • JR East Nagano Shinkansen　(長野 新 幹線)
  • JR East Shōnan-Shinjuku Line　(湘南 新宿 ラ イ ン)
  • JR East Takasaki Line　(高崎 線)
• Chichibu Tetsudō (秩 父 鉄 道)
  • Chichibu main line　(秩 父本 線)

The lines run on continuous tracks, some on island platforms. The platforms of the Shinkansen trains are not used for any other purpose.

use

In 2015, an average of 30,864 people used the JR line every day.

history

On July 28, 1883 , the station was opened by the first private railway company in Japan, the Nippon Tetsudō ( 日本 鉄 道 , literally: "Japan Railway"), with the Takasaki line. The Chichibu line began operating on October 7, 1901, and the Jōetsu Shinkansen has been operating since November 15, 1982.

Adjacent train stations

←	Lines			→
Ōmiya		Jōetsu-Shinkansen JR East		Honjō-Waseda
Ōmiya		Nagano Shinkansen JR East		Honjō-Waseda
Kōnosu (express trains) Gyōda		Takasaki Line JR East		Fukaya (express trains) Kagohara
Mochida		Chichibu main line Chichibu Tetsudō		Kami-Kumagaya

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/zügeger/2015_01.html Source: JR East, rank 139

Web links

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

• JR Train Station Official Website (Japanese)