is a passenger

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located in the city of

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, operated by the

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(JR East).

Lines

Kamonomiya Station is served by the

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, and is located 80.8 kilometers from the line’s

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. Some trains of the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line also stop at this station.

Station layout

Kamonomiya Station has a single

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serving two tracks, with the station building is built on a cantilevered structure on top of the tracks and platform. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History

Kamonomiya Station was established as on October 21, 1920, on the Atami Line of the

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. It was upgraded to a full station on June 1, 1923 as a station for both freight and passenger service. With the opening of the

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, the Atami Line became the Tōkaidō Main Line from December 1, 1934. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in 1970, and parcel services by 1972. The current station building was completed in 1976. With the completion of

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s between Odawara and Ofuna, freight services were resumed as of March 31, 1987. With the dissolution and

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of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company and the Japan Freight Railway Company. Automated

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s using the

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system came into operation from November 18, 2001.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 12,432 passengers daily. The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

Kamonomiya is located east of central Odawara, and is home to several of Odawara's main shopping areas including Dynacity, Odawara City Mall and Robinsons. The area around Kamonomiya also contains a number of restaurants, bowling alleys,

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, and Odawara's only

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: Toho Cinema (near Robinsons) and Korona World. The Korona World complex also contains an Onsen hot-spring bath.

References

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

External links

Official home page

(Bilingual)
Kamonomiya Map
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