Shōwa Station (Kanagawa)

Shōwa Station (昭和駅, Shōwa-eki) is a railway station operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

JI09
Shōwa Station

昭和駅
Shōwa Station entrance October 2018
Location1 Ōgimachi, Kawasaki, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
（川崎市川崎区扇町1）
Japan
Operated by JR East
Line(s)JI Tsurumi Line
History
Opened1931
Passengers
[1]569 daily
Location
Shōwa Station
Location within Kanagawa Prefecture
Shōwa Station
Shōwa Station (Japan)

Lines

Shōwa Station is served by the Tsurumi Line, and is 6.4 kilometers from the terminus at Tsurumi Station.

Station layout
Station platform, May 2008

Shōwa Station has a single side platform serving bi-directional traffic.

Platform
/ JI Tsurumi Line for Ōgimachi
for Asano, Bentembashi, and Tsurumi

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Tsurumi Line JI09
Hama-Kawasaki JI08 Local Ōgimachi JI10

History
Shōwa Station entrance May 2008

Shōwa Station was opened on March 20, 1931 as a temporary stop on the privately held Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (鶴見臨港鉄道, Tsurumi Rinkō Tetsudō). Tsurumi Rinkō Railway was nationalized into the Japanese Government Railways on July 1, 1943.[2] at which time the stop was upgraded to a full station. The station has been unattended since March 1, 1971. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987 the station has been operated by JR East. The station was named Shōwa because it was adjacent to a factory of Shōwa Fertilizer Company (present-day Showa Denko).[3] The Showa Denko factory still exists next to the station.

References
  • Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7
  1. Kawasaki City statistics Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. Average number of boarding passengers in 2008.
  2. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 71. ISBN 4533029809.
  3. Sutēshon Kurabu (ed.) (1988). Eki—JR Zensen Zen'eki (Jō) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Bungeishunjū. p. 64. ISBN 4-16-748701-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

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