is a junction passenger

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located in the city of

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Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanag ...

, Japan. It is operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Chigasaki Station is served by the

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and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, and is located 56.8 kilometers from . It is also the southern

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of the 33.3 kilometer Sagami Line.

Station layout

Chigasaki Station has three

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s with an elevated station building. The station has a ''

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'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

The song "Kibō no Wadachi" by the Southern All-Stars began to be used as the

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for platforms 5 and 6 from 1 October 2014.

History

Chigasaki Station was opened on June 15, 1898 for both passenger and freight service as part of the section of the

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(JNR) Tōkaidō Main Line connecting

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with Kōzu. The adjacent Sagami Line station (then operated by the

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opened on September 28, 1921. It was

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on June 1, 1944, becoming part of the Japan National Railways. Scheduled freight services were discontinued from 1984, and small parcel services from 1985. With the dissolution and

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of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of the East Japan Railway Company. The north exit bus terminal was greatly expanded in 1996 and 1998. Automated

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s using the Suica

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system came into operation on November 18, 2001. The station building was reconstructed in 2006 to include a multi-story

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Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 55,778 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

*Chigasaki City Hall *Chigasaki Municipal Hospital *Chigasaki Citizens' Cultural Centerl *Kanagawa Prefectural Chigasaki High School *Kanagawa Prefectural Tsurumine High School *Chigasaki Tokushukai Hospital *Chigasaki City Library *Chigasaki City Museum of Art

References

*Yoshikawa, Fumio. ''Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi''. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002)

External links

JR East Station Information
{{ja-linecat, East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture Sagami Line Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Tōkaidō Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1898 Chigasaki, Kanagawa