is an interchange passenger

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located in the city of

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, Japan, operated by

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(JR East) and the private railway company,

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Lines

Musashi-Sakai Station is served by the JR East

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, and is also the northern terminus of the short

Seibu Tamagawa Line The is an railway line in the western suburbs of Tokyo operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway. The line connects Musashi-Sakai Station on the Chūō Main Line with Koremasa Station along the Tama River. The line has only six st ...

. It is not a major transfer station, and only the slowest services on the Chūō Rapid Line stop at Musashi-Sakai.

JR East

Station layout

JR Musashi-Sakai Station has two elevated opposed

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s serving two tracks, with the station building located underneath. The station has a ''

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'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

Seibu

Station layout

The Seibu station has a single elevated dead-headed

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serving two tracks, with the station building located underneath.

Platforms

History

The JR station opened on 11 April 1889 as . The Tamagawa Line began operations on 22 October 1917. The station was renamed to its present name on 1 July 1919. The current station building was completed in 2008.

Surrounding area

The area around Musashi-Sakai has the standard commercial activity common to suburban Tokyo train stations, with branches of the

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department store, JR-owned Hotel Mets, and the Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, as well as a shopping street with many restaurants and small shops on the north side. The station has the standard taxi rank and bus stops, servicing bus routes between there and Hibarigaoka Station on the

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to the north and Chōfu Station on the

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to the south. It is the nearest train station to the

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and the

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headquarters. (formerly Tamabochimae), the second stop down on the Seibu Tamagawa Line, serves The

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, Nogawa Park,

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, and other institutions.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR station was used by an average of 68,907 passengers daily (boarding passengers only) making it the 67th busiest JR East station. In the same fiscal year, the station was the busiest on the Seibu Tamagawa Line and the 33rd busiest on the Seibu network as a whole with an average of 30,854 passengers daily. The passenger figures in previous years are as shown below. Note that the JR East figures only consider boarding passengers whereas the Seibu figures consider both entering and exiting passengers.

References

External links

Seibu station information

JR East station information
{{ja-linecat, East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Tokyo Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889 Seibu Tamagawa Line Chūō Main Line Musashino, Tokyo