Kashiwanoha-campus station - sep 20 2020

is a passenger

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in the city of Kashiwa,

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to t ...

, Japan. Its station number is TX13.

Line

Kashiwanoha-campus Station is served by the

Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company The is a third-sector railway operating company in Japan. It was established on 15 March 1991 to construct the 58.3 km Tsukuba Express (then known as the ''Jōban Shinsen'') commuter railway line from in Tokyo to in Ibaraki Prefecture ...

Tsukuba Express The , or TX, is a Japanese railway line operated by the third-sector company Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, which links Akihabara Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and Tsukuba Station in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. The route was inaugurated on 24 Aug ...

line, which operates between

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in Tokyo and

Tsukuba Station is a passenger railway station in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operating company Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company. It is numbered "TX20". Lines Tsukuba Station is the northern terminus of ...

. It is located 30.0 kilometers from the

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of the line at .

Station layout

The station consists of two opposed elevated

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platform ...

s, with the station building located underneath. The station building was designed by architect

Makoto Sei Watanabe Makoto Sei Watanabe (born 1952) is a Japanese architect living in Tokyo. He designed such buildings as Japan's K Museum, has lectured at universities around Japan, and won many awards for his designs. He is the author of ''The Induction Cities'' ...

Platforms

History

The station opened on 24 August 2005, coinciding with the opening of the Tsukuba Express line.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 18,015 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

The station is surrounded by large-scale new town housing developments.

References

External links

TX Kashiwanoha-campus Station
{{Tsukuba Express Railway stations in Japan opened in 2005 Railway stations in Chiba Prefecture Stations of Tsukuba Express Kashiwa