Kamoi Station (鴨居駅, Kamoi-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
JH18 Kamoi Station 鴨居駅 | |||||||||||||||
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 Kamoi Station South Exit, May 2021 | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kamoi-cho 1-8-14, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 226-0003 Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°30′39.1″N 139°34′1.5″E / 35.510861°N 139.567083°E | ||||||||||||||
| Operated by | .svg){kind=logo} JR East | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | JH Yokohama Line | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 10.9 km from Higashi-Kanagawa | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi ) | ||||||||||||||
| Station code | JH18 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 December 1962 | ||||||||||||||
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| FY2019 | 39,588 daily | ||||||||||||||
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Lines
editKamoi Station is served by the Yokohama Line from Higashi-Kanagawa to Hachiōji, and is 10.9 km from the official starting point of the line at Higashi-Kanagawa. Many services continue west of Higashi-Kanagawa via the Negishi Line to Sakuragicho during the offpeak, and to Ōfuna during the morning peak.
Station layout
editThe station consists of a single island platform serving two elevated tracks with the station building underneath. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Platforms
edit| 1 | JH Yokohama Line | for Machida, Hashimoto and Hachioji |
| 2 | JH Yokohama Line | for Higashi-Kanagawa, Yokohama, Sakuragicho, and Ōfuna |
History
editKamoi Station was opened on 25 December 1962 as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. A new station building was completed in 1998.
Station numbering was introduced on 20 August 2016 with Kamoi being assigned station number JH18.[1][2]
Passenger statistics
editIn fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 39,588 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | daily average | |
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| 2005 | 33,765 | [4] |
| 2010 | 38,294 | [5] |
| 2015 | 39,479 | [6] |
Surrounding area
edit- Yokohama City Kamoi Elementary School
- Yokohama City Kamoi Junior High School
- Yokohama City Higashikamoi Junior High School
- Kanagawa Prefectural Hakusan High School
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "⾸都圏エリアへ 「駅ナンバリング」を導⼊します" [Introduce “station numbering” to the Tokyo metropolitan area] (PDF). jreast.co.jp (in Japanese). 6 April 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ Kusamachi, Yoshikazu (7 April 2016). "JA・JK・JT・AKB…JR東日本、首都圏で駅ナンバリングなど導入へ" [JA, JK, JT, AKB … JR East to introduce station numbering in the Tokyo metropolitan area]. Response Automotive Media (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ 各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成18年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成23年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成28年度 [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
External links
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Media related to Kamoi Station (Kanagawa) at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Japanese)
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