is a junction passenger

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located in the Manpukuji neighborhood of Asao-ku, Kawasaki,

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and operated by the

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operator

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Lines

Shin-Yurigaoka Station is served by the

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, with some through services to and from in Tokyo. It lies from the Shinjuku

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. It is also the eastern terminus of the Odakyū Tama Line.

Station layout

The station consists of three

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s serving six tracks, with an elevated station building.

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Lines

Shin-Yurigaoka Station is served by the

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and is also the starting point of the It is 21.5 km from the terminus of the Odawara Line at

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. File:Shin-Yurigaoka Station (North) 201703.jpg, The north entrance to the station in March 2017 File:Shinyurigaoka Station overview.JPG, An overview of the station platforms in December 2012

History

Shin Yurigaoka Station opened on 1 June 1974. The greenfield station was developed by Odakyu Railway in 1974 as a purpose built station to hold trains for expresses to overtake local trains, and as a temporary holding spot for large numbers of passengers as the closer stations and rails towards central Tokyo were a

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and had land acquisition issues and protracted legal filings with residents for decades, particularly in

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ward. There was no room for six parallel platforms closer to Tokyo. Due to these lawsuits, the congested

was even unable to acquire land by year 2000 for quad tracking on the Odawara line north of the station (in/out of Tokyo), resorting to phased expensive fixes to lack of land such as stacking rails vertically using tunnels and

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, finished in March 2018. Along with the station, an attached masterplanned community was coordinated by Odakyu to support the railway. The station had been planned to connect to the Yokohama subway and proposed

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lines, but those plans have been shelved or postponed, leaving the station as merely an Odakyu junction.

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was introduced in January 2014 with Shin-Yurigaoka being assigned station number OH23.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 21,681 passengers daily. The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

*Asao Ward Office * Japan Institute of the Moving Image * Showa Academia Musicae

References

External links

* {{Odakyu Tama Line Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1974 Odakyu Odawara Line Stations of Odakyu Electric Railway Railway stations in Kawasaki, Kanagawa

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