Tokorozawa Railway Station

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Tokorozawa Station ( 所 沢 駅 )
West side of the station
West side of Tokorozawa Station
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation Ikebukuro Line: SI17
Shinjuku Line: SS22
opening March 21, 1895
Website URL seiburailway.jp
location
City / municipality Tokorozawa
prefecture Saitama
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 47 '10 "  N , 139 ° 28' 26"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 47 '10 "  N , 139 ° 28' 26"  E
Railway lines

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The Tokorozawa Station ( Jap. 所沢駅 , Tokorozawa-eki ) is about 100,000 passengers per day, the largest train station in the Japanese city of Tokorozawa in Saitama Prefecture . It is located about 30 km west of downtown Tokyo and is operated exclusively by the private railway company Seibu Tetsudō . It occupies a special position in its route network, as it is only possible to change from the Shinjuku to the Ikebukuro line and vice versa here.

history

Tokorozawa Station in 1952

Tokorozawa Station was opened on March 21, 1895 and operated by the Kawagoe Tetsudō ( 川 越 鉄 道 ), a forerunner of Seibu Tetsudō, founded a year earlier . Their route today forms today's Shinjuku line. On April 14, 1915, the Musashino Tetsudō ( 武 蔵 野 鉄 道 ), another forerunner of the Seibu Tetsudō, integrated Tokorozawa into their route network (which roughly corresponds to today's Ikebukuro line), so that the station was now used by two companies at the same time. From 1983 to 1989 serious construction work was carried out to renovate the station building. a. consisted of an extension of the eastern part of the building with another entrance.

From March 2010 to June 2013, construction work for a redesign of the building was carried out again, which is why temporary facilities were used for operation during this time. Since the introduction of station numbers at the Seibu Tetsudō in 2012, the station has been numbered "SI17" (Ikebukuro line) and "SS22" (Shinjuku line). Extensive construction work on the station building began again in August 2016. It is planned to build a five-storey department store ( Depāto ) on the east side by mid-2020 , which will also extend over three storeys over the platform tracks (similar to the The Squaire office building above the Frankfurt am Main airport long-distance train station ). A redesign of the exterior walls and the parking garage is also included in the plan.

Type of construction and tracks

Schematic overview of the track usage
  • Shinjuku line
  • Ikebukuro line
  • Sidings

    • Tokorozawa station is the only way to transfer between the Shinjuku and Ikebukuro lines. The five platform tracks on two central platforms and one outer platform are connected above ground for passengers and numbered in ascending order from north to south. Besides the five platform tracks south there is the fifth track another 6. ( shunting ) railway, which exclusively for maneuvering is used and the station Shin-Akitsu of JR - Musashino Line leads.

    1 ▉  (Shinjuku Line) Kōkū-kōen • Sayama • Hon-Kawagoe
    2 ▉  (Shinjuku Line) Takadanobaba • Shinjuku • Kokubunji ( Kokubunji Line )
    3 ▉  (Ikebukuro line) Ikebukuro • Shibuya • Yokohama ( Fukutoshin , Tōyoko lines)
    4/5 ▉  (Ikebukuro line) Irumashi • Hannō • Agano

    Lines and neighboring stations

    View from the south central platform to the opposite one (2014)

    Tokorozawa Station is served by the Seibu Ikebukuro and Shinjuku Lines. In addition, there are connections to other Seibu lines and to the Tōkyō Metro - Yūrakuchō Line and - Fukutoshin Line and Tōyoko Line , which is why it is possible to travel to Motomachi-Chūkagai station in Yokohama without changing .

    ←
    		 Lines
    →
    Higashi Murayama Shinjuku line Shinjuku line Kōkū-kōen
    Shin-Tokorozawa (Commuter Express)
    Sayamashi (Special Express)
    Akitsu
    Higashi-Kurume (Commuter Express)
    Hibarigaoka (Express; Schnell-Express)
    Hōya (S-Train, weekdays)
    Shakujii-kōen (S-Train, on weekends and public holidays)
    Ikebukuro (Special Express)     		Ikebukuro line Ikebukuro line Nishi-Tokorozawa
    Kotesashi (Schnell-Express)
    Ende (S-Train, weekdays)
    Irumashi (S-Train, on weekends and public holidays;
    Special-Express)

    Bus transport

    There are several stops of the bus station belonging to the train station on the east and west sides of the building . On the east side next to keep urban and regional buses u. a. Long-distance buses from the bus company Tōkyō Kūkō Kōtsū ( 東京 空港 交 ; Eng. "Airport Transport Service") and Keisei Bus ( 京 成 バ ス ) to Tokyo-Haneda and Tokyo-Narita airports  as well as the bus company Nishi-nihon JR Bus ( 西 日本 ジ ェ イ ア ー ル バ ス ; eng. "West JR Bus Company") to Kyōto and Osaka . Only city and regional buses stop on the west side.

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ 計画 概要 - 所 沢 駅 東 口 駅 ビ ル 計画 . Seibu Properties , October 5, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 (Japanese).

    Web links

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