is a passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

located in the city of Hannō, Saitama, Japan, jointly operated by

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(JR East) and the private railway operator

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Lines

Higashi-Hannō Station is served by the JR East

Hachikō Line The is a 92.0 km (57.2 mi) regional railway line owned and operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is located within Tokyo, Saitama, and Gunma Prefectures in Japan. It connects Hachiōji Station in Hachiōji, Tokyo w ...

from with many services running to and from on the

Kawagoe Line The Kawagoe Line () is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), which connects the cities of Saitama, Kawagoe, and Hidaka in Saitama Prefecture. The main transfer stations on the line are , , and . Servic ...

. It is 25.6 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Hachiōji. It is also served by the

Seibu Ikebukuro Line The is a railway line of the Japanese private railway operator Seibu Railway. It originates at Ikebukuro Station, a large railway junction in north-western Tokyo, extending to northwest suburbs as far as Tokorozawa, Saitama, and nominally term ...

from in Tokyo and is 44.5 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Ikebukuro.

Station layout

JR Higashi-Hanno Station

The JR East station consists of one ground-level

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

serving three tracks, one of which is used exclusively for freight operations. The platform is connected by a footbridge to the neighboring station building. The station is staffed.

Seibu Higashi-Hanno Station

Seibu-railway-ikebukuro-line-Higashi-hanno-station-platform

The Seibu station consists of one ground-level

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, ...

, serving a single bidirectional track, connected to the JR platform and the station building by a footbridge.

Platforms

History

The station opened on December 10, 1931, as a joint station of

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and the Musashino Railway (present-day Seibu). Station numbering was introduced on all Seibu Railway lines during fiscal 2012, with Higashi-Hannō Station becoming "SI27".

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the Seibu station was the 79th busiest on the Seibu network with an average of 5,651 passengers daily. In fiscal 2019, the JR station was used by an average of 5751 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below. Note that the figures for JR East consider only boarding passengers whereas those for Seibu consider both boarding and disembarking passengers.

Surrounding area

*Hannō Post Office *Hannō City Hall *

References

External links

JR East station information

Seibu station information
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