Takao station
| Takao ( 高 尾 ) | |
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 JR East reception building (November 2005)
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | JC24 / KO52 |
| opening | August 1, 1901 |
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| City / municipality | Hachiōji |
| prefecture | Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 38 '32 " N , 139 ° 16' 55" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 171 m TP |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Takao Station ( Jap. 高尾駅 , Takao-eki ) is a station on the Japanese island of Honshu , run by the railway companies , JR East and Keio Dentetsu . It is located in Tokyo Prefecture in the area of the city of Hachiōji and is an important hub on the western edge of the Tokyo metropolitan area .
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In Takao, the urban Chūō high-speed train line coming from Tokyo merges into the rural part of the Chūō main line , which leads in the direction of Shiojiri and Nagoya . For this reason, Takao, although designed as a through station , is the terminus of many local trains and at the same time a transfer station. Both lines share the same route and are operated by the JR East railway company. There is also the Keiō Takao line of the Keiō Dentetsu railway company from Shinjuku via Chōfu to Takaosanguchi ; because of the different gauges, there is no track connection between the two lines.
To and from Tokyo, JR East offers five to seven connections per hour on the Chūō rapid transit line during the day, and up to twelve connections per hour during rush hour. Not all trains turn around here: several express trains are extended beyond Takao to Ōtsuki or Kawaguchiko . Depending on the time of day, two to four regional trains run every hour from Takao via Ōtsuki to Kofu on the Chūō main line (i.e. in a westerly direction) . In some cases, Tachikawa is the eastern terminus. On the Keiō Takao line, six to eight trains per hour are offered on weekdays, with almost all of them in Kitano being transferred to the subsequent Keiō line in the direction of Shinjuku or coming from there. Local and express trains alternate at all times of the day except in the evening. Due to the lively excursion traffic, the number of express trains is higher on weekends and public holidays.
The northern station forecourt is the location of several bus stops, which are served by nine lines of the companies Nishi Tōkyō Bus and Keiō Bus Minami . Until the redesign of the forecourt in 2016, a bus turntable was in operation due to the limited space available . Other bus stops on the south side are served by eleven lines of the companies Keiō Dentetsu Bus , Keiō Bus Minami , Nishi Tōkyō Bus and Tokyo Airport Transportation .
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The station is in the northeast of the Takaomachi district in the Minamiasa Valley. It is aligned from east to west and consists of two parts, the larger JR station on the north side with tracks in Cape gauge (1067 mm) and the Keiō station on the south side with tracks in "Scottish gauge" (1372 mm). The first is at ground level, the latter raised on a viaduct . At the western end of the station area, the JR tracks cross a level crossing , while the parallel Keiō tracks cross the street without any obstacles.
Four of the eleven tracks of the JR station are used for passenger traffic (one of which is a dead end ). These are located on two covered central platforms and can be reached via two covered overpasses. The platforms are enclosed by a four-track storage facility in the north and two through tracks for long-distance and freight traffic in the south. The western overpass created the connection to a wooden reception building on the north side, the construction of which is modeled on a temple. The eastern overpass connects both platforms with the southern, more modern reception building, which is surrounded by tracks on both sides. From there you can either get to a Keio Store (shopping center of the Keio Group ) or to the Keiō Dentetsu train station, which comprises two tracks on a covered central platform.
In the 2018 fiscal year, an average of 56,437 passengers used the station every day. Of these, 28,871 were accounted for by JR East and 27,556 by Keiō Dentetsu.
Tracks
- JR East
| 1 | ▉ Chūō rapid transit line | Hachiōji • Tachikawa • Mitaka • Nakano • Shinjuku • Tokyo |
| 2-4 | ▉ Chūō main line | Ōtsuki • Kofu |
- Keiō Dentetsu
| 5 | ▉ Keiō Takao line | Kitano • Takahatafudō • Chōfu • Meidaimae • Shinjuku |
| 6th | ▉ Takao line | Takaosanguchi |
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Bus turntable
JR East platforms
Platform locks
Keiō Dentetsu platform
history
The state railway administration (later the Ministry of Railways ) opened the station on August 1, 1901, together with the Hachiōji –Uenohara section of the Chūō main line . The name of the station at that time was Asakawa ( 浅川 ), after the village of the same name in the immediate vicinity. On August 5, 1945, a few weeks before the end of the Pacific War , an American P-51 fighter plane fired at a fully occupied passenger train heading for Nagano near the Inohana tunnel west of the station . 52 people were killed and more than 130 injured. The Japanese State Railways stopped handling goods on April 20, 1960 and renamed Asakawa station on March 20, 1961 to Takao (the community of Asakawa had been incorporated into Hachiōji two years earlier). To develop the touristically important mountain Takao , the Keiō Teito Dentetsu (since 1998 Keiō Dentetsu ) opened on October 1, 1967 the Takao line between Kitano and Takaosanguchi , with its own Takao station. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the older part of the station went into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 .
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Web links
- JR East Station Information (Japanese)
- Keiō Dentetsu station information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weekday schedule in the direction of Tokyo. JR East , 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ Weekday timetable in the direction of Kofu. JR East , 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ Timetable from Takao towards Kitano (working days). Keiō Dentetsu , 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ Timetable from Takao in the direction of Takaosanguchi (Sundays and public holidays). Keiō Dentetsu , 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ 高 尾 駅 周 辺 調査. Mikanzukituyu blog, April 6, 2016, accessed April 1, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ 各 駅 の 乗車 人員. JR East , 2018, accessed April 1, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ 1 日 の 駅 別 乗 降 人員. Keiō Dentetsu , 2018, accessed April 1, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ Tomimura Sasaki, Ryōichi Amitani: 続 事故 の 鉄 道 史 . Nipponkeizai hyōron-sha, Chiyoda 1995, p. 77-91 .
- ↑ Hirokazu Terada: デ ー タ ブ ッ ク 日本 の 私 鉄 . Neko Publishing, Tokyo 2013, ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4 , pp. 229 .
- ↑ 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 .