is a passenger

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on the

Odakyu Odawara Line , commonly known as Odakyū, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan, best known for its ''Romancecar'' series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Kanagawa, Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone, Kanagawa, Hakone. T ...

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, Japan, operated by the private railway company

Odakyu Electric Railway , commonly known as Odakyū, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan, best known for its '' Romancecar'' series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone. The Odakyu Electric Railway Compa ...

Station layout

The elevated station features four tracks and two

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s. Express trains typically bypass the station on the two innermost tracks while local and semi-express trains stop at the station on the two outermost tracks, which serve platforms 1 and 2. Before tracks were quadrupled and elevated on this section of the Odawara Line in 2004, the station was located as street level and featured two tracks and two side platforms.

Platforms

History

Chitose-Funabashi Station opened on April 1, 1927.

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was introduced in 2014 with Chitose-Funabashi being assigned station number OH11.

References

Odakyu Odawara Line Stations of Odakyu Electric Railway Railway stations in Tokyo Railway stations in Japan opened in 1927 {{Tokyo-railstation-stub