is a passenger

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located in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama,

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

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, operated by the

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(JR East).

Lines

Kozukue Station is served by the Yokohama Line from to , and is 7.8 km from the official starting point of the line at Higashi-Kanagawa. Many services continue west of Higashi-Kanagawa via the Negishi Line to during the offpeak, and to during the morning peak.

Station layout

The station consists of a single

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and a

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 platforms ...

serving three elevated tracks, with the station building underneath. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History

Kozukue Station was opened on 23 September 1908 as a station on the privately held Yokohama Railway Company. The line was acquired by the Japanese government in 1910, and merged into the

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

system (the predecessor to the JNR) from October 1, 1917. The station building was destroyed in the

1923 Great Kantō earthquake The struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Extensive firestorms an ...

and rebuilt in 1925. All freight operations were suspended from 1972. With the

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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 Station numbering is a sign system which assigns station codes consisting of a few letters and numbers to train stations. It aims to facilitate navigation for foreign travelers not familiar with the local language by using globally understood ch ...

was introduced to the Yokohama Line platforms 20 August 2016 with Kozukue being assigned station number JH17.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 10,345 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

References

External links

* Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1908 Yokohama Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Yokohama {{Kanagawa-railstation-stub