is a passenger

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located in

Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, Hodogaya Ward had an estimated population of 205,887 and a density of . The total area was . Geography Hodogaya Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefec ...

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. Kanag ...

, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Hodogaya Station is served by the

Yokosuka Line The is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The Yokosuka Line connects Tokyo Station with in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. Officially, the name Yokosuka Line is assigned to the 23.9 km segment between an ...

and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and is 31.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Yokosuka Line at

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Station layout

The station consists of a single

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serving two tracks which are jointly used by trains of both the Yokosuka Line and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line. Trains of the

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pass through Hodogaya Station, but do not stop. The station is above ground, with an above-track station building. To the east side of the platform runs the

, which does not have a platform. On the north side there is a section of track for trains to go out of service on, as well as a place where trains from Yokohama can change directions and turn back. On the Yokohama side there is also a lineman's operating base. Because there was once a freight platform, there are two signals on the north side. When these signals are red, passenger trains must wait to depart. The station has a ''

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'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History

Hodogaya Station was opened on July 11, 1887 as a station on 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 Ra ...

(JGR), the predecessor to the post-war

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR). Initially for passenger operations only, freight operations began the following year. In 1930 when Yokosuka Line trains were replaced by electric multiple units, all Tōkaidō Line trains ceased to stop at the station. Although the station was located in the town named , originally the station was named . The station was renamed to its present name 保土ヶ谷, with no change in pronunciation, on October 1, 1931 following the petition for the renaming by the mayor of Yokohama on July 8, 1927. All freight operations were discontinued from October 1, 1979 when the new freight line that bypassed the station opened. Operation of Yokosuka Line trains was transferred from the tracks shared by the Tōkaidō Line trains to the former freight tracks in 1980. With the

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of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 34,029 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

* Japan National Route 1 *Seirei Yokohama Hospital

References

External links

JR Hodogaya Station
{{Shonan-Shinjuku Line Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture Yokosuka Line Tōkaidō Main Line Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Railway stations in Yokohama Railway stations in Japan opened in 1887