is a railway station in the

Shin-Koiwa is a neighborhood next to Koiwa in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. The neighborhood's main traffic hub is Shin-Koiwa Station served by the Sōbu and Chūō-Sōbu Lines. As of 2000, the neighborhood is home to some 20,496 people.Ichiko, Aiba, Yoshi ...

neighborhood, in

Katsushika, Tokyo is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. The ward calls itself Katsushika City in English. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 444,356, and a population density of 12,770 people per km². The total area is 34.80 ...

, Japan, operated by

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...

(JR East).

Lines

Shin-Koiwa Station is served by the

Sōbu Line (Rapid) The Sōbu Line (Rapid) ( ja, 総武快速線, ) is a railway service on the Sōbu Main Line in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Tokyo Station in Chūō, Tokyo with Chiba Station in ...

and the Chūō-Sōbu Line.

Station layout

The station consists of two

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

s serving four tracks. The station has a "

Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...

" staffed ticket office and also a "View Plaza" travel agent.

Platforms

File:JREast-Sobu-main-line-JO23-JB25-Shin-koiwa-station-entrance-north-20161215-150220.jpg, The north entrance in December 2016 File:Shinkoiwa Station North Entrance.JPG, The new North Entrance of Shinkoiwa Station on the Sobu Line in Tokyo, opened on June 24, 2018 File:Shinkoiwa Station north-south corridor.jpg, The new north-south corridor of Shinkoiwa Station on the Sobu Line in Tokyo, opened on June 24, 2018 allows people to walk from the north entrance to the south entrance without walking around the station building. This view is towards the north exit. File:Shin-Koiwa Station Platform.jpg, Platforms of Shinkoiwa after

platform edge doors Platform screen doors (PSDs), also known as platform edge doors (PEDs), are used at some train, rapid transit and people mover stations to separate the platform from train tracks, as well as on some bus rapid transit, tram and light rail syste ...

were added

History

Shin-Koiwa Station opened on 10 July 1928. With the privatization of

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the station was used by an average of 72,306 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 59th-busiest station operated by JR East. The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) in previous years are as shown below.

Accidents

JR East is considering installing

platform-edge doors Platform screen doors (PSDs), also known as platform edge doors (PEDs), are used at some train, rapid transit and people mover stations to separate the platform from train tracks, as well as on some bus rapid transit, tram and light rail syst ...

due to the large number of passenger accidents and suicides occurring at this station. Between July 2011 and June 2013, 13 incidents occurred in which passengers were hit by trains at this station. Katsushika Ward made an official request to JR East to install platform-edge doors at the station in July 2012. On 27 June 2013, at around 14:40, a man in his thirties jumped in front of a 12-car ''

Narita Express , abbreviated as N'EX, is a limited express train service operated in Japan since 1991 by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), serving Narita International Airport from various Greater Tokyo Area stations. Services run approximately half-hourl ...

'' Yokohama to Narita Airport service passing non-stop through the station. The man died and his body hit a woman standing on the platform, injuring her.

References

External links

JR East station information
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