is a railway station of the

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(JR East) in Sakaori 1-chōme, in the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture,

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Lines

Sakaori Station is served by the

, and is 131.2 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

The station consists of one ground level side platform and a one island platform serving three tracks, connected by an underground passage. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History

Sakaori Station was opened on February 11, 1926 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Chūō Main Line. The JGR became the JNR ( Japanese National Railways) after the end of World War II. Scheduled freight services were discontinued from November 1986. With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company. Automated turnstiles using the

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system came into operation from October 16, 2004. The current station building was completed in February 2006.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 2,203 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* Furouen - Garden Park of Eternal Life * iCLA (International College of Liberal Arts) * Kofu Higashi High School * Yamanashi Eiwa College *

Yamanashi Gakuin University Yamanashi Gakuin University (Japanese: 山梨学院大学, ''Yamanashi gakuin daigaku'') (YGU) is a university in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Yamanashi Gakuin was founded in 1946. Today, it is a comprehensive educational institution that ...

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* Yamanashi Gakuin High School
Kai Zenkoji
Temple

References

* Miyoshi Kozo. ''Chuo-sen Machi to eki Hyaku-niju nen''. JT Publishing (2009) *

External links

JR East Sakaori Station
{{Chūō East Line Railway stations in Yamanashi Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1926 Chūō Main Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Kōfu, Yamanashi