Kikuna Station (菊名駅, Kikuna-eki) is an interchange commuter railway station located in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated jointly by the private railway company Tokyu Corporation and by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

JH15 TY16
Kikuna Station

菊名駅
JR East Kikuna Station building
General information
LocationKikuna 7-chome, Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 222-0011
Japan
Coordinates35°30′35″N 139°37′53″E / 35.50972°N 139.63139°E / 35.50972; 139.63139
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms3 island platforms
Other information
StatusStaffed (Midori no Madoguchi)
Station codeJH15, TY16
History
Opened14 February 1926; 98 years ago (14 February 1926)
Passengers
FY2019 (boarding only)53,819 daily (JR)
68,768 daily (Tokyu)
Services
Preceding station Logo of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) JR East Following station
Shin-Yokohama
JH16
towards Hachiōji
Yokohama Line
Rapid
Higashi-Kanagawa
JH13
towards Yokohama
Yokohama Line
Local
Ōguchi
JH14
towards Yokohama
Preceding station Tōkyū Railways Following station
Yokohama
TY21
F Liner Musashi-kosugi
TY11
towards Hannō or Ogawamachi
Yokohama
TY21
Terminus
Tōyoko Line
Limited Express
Musashi-kosugi
TY11
towards Shibuya
Tōyoko Line
Commuter Express
Hiyoshi
TY13
towards Shibuya
Tōyoko Line
Express
Tsunashima
TY14
towards Shibuya
Myōrenji
TY17
towards Yokohama
Tōyoko Line
Local
Ōkurayama
TY15
towards Shibuya
Location
Tammachi Station is located in Yokohama
Tammachi Station
Tammachi Station
Location within Yokohama
Tammachi Station is located in Kanagawa Prefecture
Tammachi Station
Tammachi Station
Tammachi Station (Kanagawa Prefecture)
Tammachi Station is located in Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula
Tammachi Station
Tammachi Station
Tammachi Station (Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula)
Tammachi Station is located in Japan
Tammachi Station
Tammachi Station
Tammachi Station (Japan)
East entrance of Kikuna Station

Lines

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Kikuna Station is served by the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line from Shibuya in Tokyo to Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is 18.8 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Shibuya. It is also served by the Yokohama Line and is 4.8 kilometers from the terminus of that line at Higashi-Kanagawa.

Station layout

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The JR East portion of Kikuna Station has a single island platform serving two elevated tracks, connected to the station building and the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line by an underpass. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. Tōkyū Tōyoko Kikuna Station has two island platforms serving four tracks.

JR East platforms

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1 JH Yokohama Line for Machida and Hachioji
2 JH Yokohama Line for Higashi-Kanagawa, Sakuragicho, and Ōfuna

Tokyu platforms

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3,4 TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line for Yokohama
Minatomirai Line for Minatomirai, Motomachi-Chūkagai
5,6 TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line for Musashi-kosugi, Jiyūgaoka, Naka-Meguro and Shibuya
F Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for Kotake-Mukaihara and Wakōshi
Seibu Ikebukuro Line for Hanno / Shinrin-Koen

History

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Kikuna Station was opened on February 14, 1926 as a station on the privately held Tokyo-Yokohama Railway Company (the predecessor to the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line). The Japanese Government Railways (the predecessor to the JNR) began operations to Kikuna on September 1 of the same year. All freight operations were suspended from 1970. In 1972, Tōkyū Tōyoko Line portion of the station was rebuilt, with new elevated tracks and a new station building; however, the tracks remained unused until the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line connected to the station in 1988 (which was then discontinued on 15 March 2013 when the Daikan-yama to Shibuya section of Tōkyū Tōyoko Line was moved to underground and with through running to Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line began). With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the JNR portion of the station came under the operational control of JR East. The Tōkyū Tōyoko Line platforms were lengthened in 1991 to accommodate seven-car trains; with through running with Fukutoshin Line, the platforms were lengthened again to accommodate ten-car trains.

Station numbering was introduced to the Yokohama Line platforms 20 August 2016 with Kikuna being assigned station number JH15.[1][2]

Passenger statistics

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In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 53,819 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3] During the same period, the Tokyo portion of the station was used by an average of 136,992 passengers daily (total passengers).[4]

The daily average passenger figures (boarding only) for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year JR East Tōkyū
2005 45,783 59,408 [5]
2010 50,969 66,331 [6]
2015 53,228 69,249 [7]

Surrounding area

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  • Eiri Girls'High School (formerly Takagi Girls' High School)
  • Yokohama Municipal Kikuna Elementary School
  • Yokohama Municipal Kohoku Library
  • Rensho-ji Temple
  • Kikuna Shrine

References

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  1. ^ "⾸都圏エリアへ 「駅ナンバリング」を導⼊します" [Introduce “station numbering” to the Tokyo metropolitan area] (PDF). jreast.co.jp (in Japanese). 6 April 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  2. ^ Kusamachi, Yoshikazu (7 April 2016). "JA・JK・JT・AKB…JR東日本、首都圏で駅ナンバリングなど導入へ" [JA, JK, JT, AKB … JR East to introduce station numbering in the Tokyo metropolitan area]. Response Automotive Media (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  3. ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  4. ^ "2020年度乗降人員" (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyu Corporation. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  5. ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧(平成18年度) [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  6. ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧(平成23年度) [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  7. ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧(平成28年度 [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
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