Kanazawa-Hakkei Station

Kanazawa-Hakkei Station 金沢八景駅
The station entrance in February 2012
Location	15-1 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan
Operated by	■ Keikyu
Line(s)	Keikyu Main Line Keikyu Zushi Line
Connections	Bus stop
Other information
Station code	KK50
History
Opened	1 April 1930 (1930-04-01)
Traffic
Passengers (FY2008)	54,173 (Keikyu) daily
Location
Kanazawa-Hakkei Station Location within Japan

Kanazawa-Hakkei Station (金沢八景駅, Kanazawa-Hakkei-eki) is a junction railway station in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keikyu.

Lines

Kanazawa-Hakkei Station is served by the Keikyu Main Line and is located 40.9 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Shinagawa Station, in Tokyo. It is also a terminal station for both the Keikyu Zushi Line and the Kanazawa Seaside Line, with the Kanazawa Seaside Line station located approximately 150 m to the east of the Keikyu station.

Station layout

Kanazawa-Hakkei Station is an elevated station with two island platforms serving four tracks. Track 4 is dual-gauge (1,067 mm narrow gauge and 1,435 mm standard gauge) to allow narrow-gauge rolling stock to be moved at night from the nearby J-TREC factory to JR tracks via Zushi Station.

Keikyu platforms

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  The platforms in October 2007
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  The view from the north end of platform 3/4, with the dual-gauge track from the J-TREC factory visible on the left, June 2010
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  The view from the south end of platform 3/4, with the dual-gauge track to Jimmuji Station visible on the right, June 2010

Kanazawa Seaside Line platforms

The Kanazawa Seaside Line station is located south of the Keikyu station, and is an elevated single track, single side platform station for bi-directional traffic. The Kanazawa Seaside Line station is a temporary station, with construction connecting the Seaside Line to the Keikyu station beginning in early 2016.

Adjacent stations

History

The area near the station in April 1988

Kanazawa-Hakkei Station was opened on April 1, 1930 as a station on the Shonan Electric Railway, which merged with the Keihin Electric Railway in 1941. The station was rebuilt in July 1987.

The name Kanazawa Hakkei (lit. Eight Views of Kanazawa) is taken from the name of a series of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, of eight places in the area, which were made between 1835 and 1836, by Ando Hiroshige.

Since 2010, all Rapid Limited Express (Kaitoku) trains stop at this station.

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

• Miura, Kazuo. Keikyū　Kakuekiteisha to Kamakura Monogatari. Inban Publishing　(1998). ISBN 4-8083-0624-7 (Japanese)

External links

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