is a passenger

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located in the city of

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, operated by the private railway company

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Lines

Keikyū Kurihama Station is served by the

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and is located 4.5 rail kilometers from the junction at

Horinouchi Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keikyū. Lines Horinouchi is served by the Keikyū Main Line and Keikyū Kurihama Line. It is located 52.3 rail k ...

, and 56.8 km from the starting point of the

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Station layout

The station consists of two elevated

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s serving four tracks. Platform 2 is primarily used for services terminating at Keikyū Kurihama Station.

Platforms

History

Keikyū Kurihama Station opened on December 1, 1942, as the southern

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for the Tokyu Shōnan Line. At that time, it was named simply , however, to avoid confusion with the neighboring government-run

Kurihama Station is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Kurihama Station is served by the Yokosuka Line. It is the southern terminus of the line and is located ...

, it was renamed on April 1, 1944. It became a station on the Keihin Electric Express Railway from 1948. The station was renamed , on November 1, 1963. A new station building was completed in April 1987, and the station renamed to its present name on June 1, 1987. Keikyū introduced

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to its stations on 21 October 2010; Keikyū Kurihama Station was assigned station number KK67.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 42,350 passengers daily. The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

(

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) * Kurihama shopping district * Perry Park

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keikyu Kurihama Station Railway stations in Japan opened in 1942 Keikyū Kurihama Line Railway stations in Yokosuka, Kanagawa