Kanazawa-hakkei Station

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.

KK50 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 Yokohama Seaside Line
Line(s)	KK Keikyu Main Line KK Keikyu Zushi Line Kanazawa Seaside Line
Connections	Bus stop
Other information
Station code	KK50
History
Opened	1 April 1930
Passengers
FY2008	54,173 (Keikyu) daily
Location
Kanazawa-hakkei Station Location within Kanagawa Prefecture

Lines

Kanazawa-hakkei Station is served by the Keikyū 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 Keikyū Zushi Line and the Kanazawa Seaside Line, with the Kanazawa Seaside Line station located approximately 150 m to the east of the Keikyū 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.

Keikyū platforms

1	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokosuka-chūō, Uraga, and Misakiguchi
2	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokosuka-chūō, Uraga, and Misakiguchi
	■ Keikyū Zushi Line	for Zushi·Hayama
3	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokohama, Shinagawa, Haneda Airport, and Oshiage
4	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokohama, Shinagawa, Haneda Airport, and Oshiage
	■ Keikyū Zushi Line	for Zushi·Hayama

• 
  The platforms in October 2007
• 
  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 Jinmuji Station visible on the right, June 2010

Kanazawa Seaside Line platforms

The Kanazawa Seaside Line station is located south of the Keikyū 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 Keikyū station beginning in early 2016. On 26 January 2019, the new entrance to the Keikyu side opened. The old entrance on the Keikyu side was made redundant and it is not possible to use the entrance because the stairs leading up to the platforms were blocked.

1

■ Kanazawa Seaside Line

for Hakkeijima, Torihama, and Shin-Sugita

Adjacent stations

←		Service		→
Keikyū Main Line
Morning Wing: Does not stop at this station
Kanazawa-bunko		Keikyū Wing		Yokosuka-chūō
Kanazawa-bunko		Limited Express (Kaitoku)		Yokosuka-chūō
Kanazawa-bunko		Limited Express (Tokkyū)		Oppama
Kanazawa-bunko		Airport Express		Mutsuura (Zushi Line)
Kanazawa-bunko		Local		Oppama
Keikyu Zushi Line
Kanazawa-bunko (Main Line)		Limited Express (Tokkyū)		Mutsuura
Kanazawa-bunko (Main Line)		Airport Express		Mutsuura
Kanazawa-bunko (Main Line)		Local		Mutsuura
Kanazawa Seaside Line
Nojimakōen		-	Terminus

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 ("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 Andō Hiroshige.

Since 2010, all 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 (in Japanese)

External links

• Keikyu Kanazawa-hakkei Station (in Japanese)

35°19′52″N 139°37′13″E (Keikyu), 35°19′52″N 139°37′21″E (Yokohama New Transit)