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is an interchange passenger
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in the city of
Nagareyama, Chiba Nagareyama City Hall is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 200,136 in 84,800 households and a population density of 5,700 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Nagareyama is ...
, Japan, operated by both
East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...
(JR East) and the third-sector railway operating company
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 ...
. The station is number 10 on the Tsukuba Express line.


Lines

Minami-Nagareyama Station is served by the orbital
Musashino Line The is a railway line operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It links Tsurumi Station in Yokohama with Nishi-Funabashi Station in Chiba Prefecture, forming a 100.6 km unclosed loop around central Tokyo. Passenger operations a ...
, which runs between and , and by the
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 Augu ...
line, which runs from in Tokyo and in
Ibaraki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, ...
. It is located from Fuchūhommachi Station on the Musashino Line, and from
Akihabara Station is a railway station in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. It is at the center of the Akihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods. Lines Akihabara Station is served by the following lines. JR East: * Tōhoku Main Line ** Keihin-Tohoku Li ...
on the Tsukuba Express.


Station layout


JR East

The JR East station consists of two elevated opposed
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s serving two tracks, with a bi-directional centre track used for freight services. The station building is located underneath the platforms.


Platforms


Tsukuba Express

The Tsukuba Express station consists of an underground island platform serving two tracks. The platforms were approximately long when built, to accommodate 6-car trains.


Platforms


History

Minami-Nagareyama Station opened on 1 April 1973. The Tsukuba Express station opened on 24 August 2005, coinciding with the opening of the line. The Tsukuba Express platforms are scheduled to be lengthened by in either direction by autumn 2012 to allow the train stopping positions to be offset, thus reducing platform crowding during peak periods.


Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR East portion of the station was used by an average of 35,517 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The Tsukuba Express portion of the station was used by 37,560 passengers during the same period.


Surrounding area

* Toyo Gakuen University Nagareyama Campus * Nagareyama Post Office


See also

*
List of railway stations in Japan The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan. External links {{Portal bar, Japan, Trains * Railway stations Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It ...


References


External links


JR East Minami-Nagareyama Station

TX Minami-Nagareyama Station
{{Tsukuba Express Railway stations in Chiba Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1973 Stations of East Japan Railway Company Stations of Tsukuba Express Musashino Line Nagareyama