Higashi-Kitazawa Station
Higashi-Kitazawa Station (東北沢駅, Higashi-Kitazawa eki) is a station on the Odawara Line of the Odakyu Electric Railway, located in Kitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo.
 Higashi-Kitazawa Station 東北沢駅 | |||||||||||
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 East Entrance of the station, September 2015 | |||||||||||
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| Location | 3-1-4 Kitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35.6652°N 139.6731°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by |  Odakyu Electric Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Odakyu Odawara Line | ||||||||||
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| Station code | OH06 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 April 1927 | ||||||||||
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  Shimo-kitazawa Station Location within Tokyo | |||||||||||
History
Higashi-Kitazawa Station opened with the line on April 1, 1927. Until 1966, it served freight as well as passengers.
On October 1, 2005, the express tracks through the station were taken out of service, in order to enable work to grade-separate the line and provide continuous quadruple track through Setagaya Ward. The station was moved underground on March 23, 2013, and a new station building opened on May 16, 2015.
Station Layout
The station currently consists of one underground island platform and four tracks. Express trains typically utilize the outer (express) tracks, bypassing the station, while local trains usually stop at the station on the inner (local) tracks.
Track 1 is for trains towards Odawara and Katase-Enoshima, Track 2 for trains towards Shinjuku and the Chiyoda Line.
Until 2005, the station consisted of two side platforms and four tracks, with the inner two used by non-stop trains.
Services
Trains serve this station 0455-0105 every day.
Only local trains stop at this station. The current off-peak service consists of 6 trains per hour to Shinjuku and 6 trains per hour to Hon-Atsugi. Typical journey times are 9 minutes to Shinjuku and 1 hour 20 minutes to Hon-Atsugi (though if passengers change at Shimo-Kitazawa to a Rapid Express, they can reach the latter in as little as 45 minutes). There are no direct services to the Chiyoda Line from this station; passengers must instead change at Yoyogi-Uehara.
References
This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved 20 February 2017.
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