Tachikawa Railway Station
| Tachikawa ( 立 川 ) | |
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 South side of Tachikawa Station
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | JC19 / JN26 |
| opening | April 11, 1889 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Tachikawa |
| prefecture | Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 41 '53 " N , 139 ° 24' 50" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 83 m TP |
| Railway lines | |
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Tama Toshi monorail |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Tachikawa Station ( Jap. 立川駅 , Tachikawa-eki ) is a station on the Japanese island of Honshu . The major transport hub is operated by the JR East railway company and is located in Tokyo Prefecture in the area of the city of Tachikawa .
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Tachikawa is a junction station in which the Chūō Main Line ( Shinjuku - Shiojiri ) and the Chuo-speed railway line (Shinjuku- Takao ) are parallel. From these branch off the Ōme line to Oku-Tama and the Nambu line to Kawasaki . All four lines are operated by the JR East railway company.
All express trains on the Chūō main line stop in Tachikawa . Every day 18 pairs of trains of the Azusa ( あ ず さ ) form an hourly service from Shinjuku via Kofu and Shiojiri to Matsumoto ; individual trains run beyond these endpoints to Tokyo , Minami-Otari and Chiba . The express train Kaiji ( か い じ ) connects Shinjuku with Kōfu twelve times a day , plus two pairs of express trains Fuji Kaiyū ( 富士 回遊 ) daily from Shinjuku to Kawaguchiko . In addition, the Narita Express ( 成 田 エ ク ス プ レ verbindet ) connects Takao with Tokyo Narita Airport once a day . Local traffic on the Chūō rapid transit line is very dense and consists of a complex system of express and local trains with train schedules of a few minutes. The starting points are usually Tokyo in the east and Takao and Ōtsuki in the west. Some trains run beyond Ōtsuki to Kawaguchiko. The Musashino local train ( む さ し の ) runs three times a day, initially from Hachiōji via Tachikawa to Kunitachi , then reaches the Musashino line via a freight branch and runs it to Ōmiya .
Local trains usually run five times an hour on the Ōme line during the day, while the train sequence is reduced to up to two minutes during rush hour. To more distant destinations like Mitake and Oku-Tama the clock is less close. On weekdays there are several free train connections from Shinjuku to Oku-Tama and Musashi-Itsukaichi , on weekends and public holidays there are also three pairs of express trains with few stops ( Holiday Rapid Okutama or Holiday Rapid Akigawa ). Six local trains and two express trains run every hour on the Nambu line during the day, while the train sequence is reduced to up to four minutes during rush hour.
By the company Tama Toshi Monorail powered monorail Tama combines Kamikitadai in the city Higashiyamato with Tama Center in the city of Tama . The trains run six to eight times an hour and cross the station area. However, they do not stop right next to the JR East reception building, but just under 200 m away: The Tachikawa-Kita stop is on the edge of the northern station forecourt, the Tachikawa-Minami stop at the southern station forecourt. In front of the north entrance of the station is a large bus station , which is served by several dozen lines of the companies Tachikawa Bus , Seibu Bus and Keiō Dentetsu Bus . A dozen more lines run from the south entrance. There are also airport shuttle buses, express buses to Tokyo and several long-distance night buses.
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The station is in the central district of Akebonochō and faces east to west. The facility has twelve tracks, eight of which are used for passenger traffic. These are at ground level on four covered central platforms , while the other four tracks are reserved for goods traffic. However, the latter only serve to guide goods trains from the Nambu to the Ōme line; Cargo handling no longer takes place here. A voluminous station building spans the entire complex in the form of a riding station . It is directly connected to the LUMINE and Ecute shopping centers as well as to several high-rise office buildings that make maximum use of the space above the track field. Several wide pedestrian passages provide connections to the surrounding streets. The monorail line runs past this massive building complex to the west .
In the 2018 fiscal year, an average of 168,512 passengers used the station every day.
Tracks
| 1 • 2 | ▉ Ōme line | Haijima • Ōme • Oku-Tama |
| ▉ Itsukaichi line | (Ōme–) Musashi-Itsukaichi | |
| 3 • 4 | ▉ Chūō rapid transit line | Mitaka • Nakano • Shinjuku • Tokyo |
| 4 • 5 | ▉ Chūō rapid transit line | Hachiōji • Takao • Kofu |
| 5 • 6 | ▉ Ōme line | Haijima • Ōme • Komagawa |
| ▉ Itsukaichi line | (Ōme–) Musashi-Itsukaichi | |
| 7 • 8 | ▉ Nambu line | Fuchū-Honmachi • Noborito • Musashi-Kosugi • Kawasaki |
history
The Kōbu Tetsudō opened on April 11, 1889, the first section of the later Chūō main line , which reached from Shinjuku to this point. For four months, Tachikawa was the western terminus until the extension to Hachiōji was commissioned on August 11, 1889. Another private railway company, the Ōme Tetsudō , opened the first section of the later Ōme line from Tachikawa to Ōme on November 19, 1894 . On October 1, 1906, the Kōbu Tetsudō was nationalized . The Railway Authority (later the Ministry of Railways ) built a factory railway starting in Tachikawa, which was mainly used to remove gravel from the Tama River ; It was in operation from March 3, 1916. Next came the Nambu Tetsudō , which opened the Bubaigawara – Tachikawa section of the Nambu line on December 11, 1929 . Itsukaichi Tetsudō completed the traffic junction with the commissioning of the Tachikawa– Haijima line on July 13, 1930.
In 1940 the Itsukaichi Tetsudō went into the Ōme Tetsudō , which four years later - like the Nambu Tetsudō - also passed into state ownership. The Ministry of Transport and Communications shut down the section of the Itsukaichi line leading to Tachikawa on October 11, 1944, and on July 1, 1946 also the works railway that began here. On the morning of January 4, 1964, in neighboring Nishi-Tachikawa, a tank car filled with gasoline broke away from a US Army freight train because no wheel chocks had been used due to negligence . The tank car rolled to Tachikawa, crashed into the station building and exploded. The railway employees were able to get the approximately 60 people in the station to safety just in time, but the completely destroyed station building had to be replaced.
For cost reasons, the Japanese State Railways stopped handling goods on April 1, 1980. On October 2nd, 1980, today's reception building and shopping center opened. 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 . On November 27, 1998, the first section of the Tama monorail was opened; the route connected Kamikitadai with Tachikawa-Kita on the north side of the station. A little more than a year later, on January 10, 2000, the extension to Tama-Center followed , including the Tachikawa-Minami stop south of the station.
Adjacent train stations
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| Shinjuku |
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JR East Chūō rapid transit line |
Hino | ||
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Ōme Line JR East |
Nishi-Tachikawa | ||
| Nishi-Kunitachi |
JR East Nambu Line |
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Web links
- JR East Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b JR 時刻表 2019 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2019). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2019.
- ↑ 各 駅 の 乗車 人員. JR East , 2018, accessed December 5, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 甲 武 鉄 道 新宿 八 王子 間 開通 祝賀 式. In: Yomiuri Shimbun . National Library of Parliament digital archive , August 14, 1889, accessed December 5, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . In: Satoru Sone (ed.): Shūkan asahi hyakka . No. 38 . Asahi Shimbun , Tokyo April 2010, p. 10 (Japanese).
- ↑ 地方 鉄 道 運輸 開始. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , December 18, 1929; accessed December 5, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR. P. 24.
- ↑ Sone: 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR. P. 14.
- ↑ Tetsu Ishino (Ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大事 典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 978-4-533-02980-6 .
- ^ Tetsudō Journal, Volume 33, No. 2. Tetsudōjānarusha, Tokyo February 1999. p. 93.
- ↑ 多 摩 モ ノ レ ー ル 延伸 開業. In: Kōtsū Shimbun, January 12, 2000. p. 1.