Ōfuna Station (, ) is a railway station in

Kamakura, Kanagawa , officially , is a Cities of Japan, city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per k ...

, Japan, operated by

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and 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 in ...

(JR East) and

Shonan Monorail The is a suspended SAFEGE monorail in the cities of Kamakura and Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the which belongs to Michinori Holdings, and opened on March 7, 1970, the first monorail of its kind in Japan. Trai ...

Lines

Ōfuna Station is served by the Tokaido Main Line, Shōnan-Shinjuku Line,

Negishi Line The Negishi Line () is a Japanese railway line which connects Yokohama Station, Yokohama and Ōfuna Station, Ōfuna stations. It is operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Freight trains also operate on this line, and it is essential f ...

( Keihin-Tōhoku Line),

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 segment between and Kurihama sta ...

, as well as the

. It is 46.5 km from the terminus of the Tōkaidō Main Line at

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Station layout

Ōfuna Station is an elevated station with five

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s serving a total of 11 tracks. The adjacent Shonan Monorail station has a single bay platform. There are above-track station buildings at both ends of the platforms, toward Fujisawa and toward Totsuka, offering passage between lines inside the ticket gates. The Kashio River, which runs between the two current station buildings, is a city boundary, meaning that the end of the station near Fujisawa is in

Kamakura , officially , is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per km2 over the tota ...

, while the end toward Totsuka is in

Sakae-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 Wards of Japan, wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 124,845 and a population density, density of 6,750 persons per km². The total area was 18.55 k ...

. However, the station master's office is, as was before the station's rebuilding, on the Kamakura side, so the station is treated as a Kamakura station, and not considered to be within the city of Yokohama. The Fujisawa-side station building has the southern ticket gates and connects to East and West exits. The station building is connected by a passageway beside the building to the Shonan Monorail station. There is also a ''

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'' staffed ticket office and a View Plaza travel agency. In the Totsuka-side station building is the northern ticket gate, connected to the Kasama Entrance.

Platforms

File:Ofuna Station platforms 20150726.JPG, The south end of the down Tokaido Line platforms (3-4), July 2015 File:Ofuna Station Dila 20150726.JPG, The station interior, July 2015

History

Ōfuna Station opened on November 1, 1888, as a station on the Tōkaidō Main Line. The Yokosuka Line between Ōfuna and

Yokosuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has a population of 373,797, and a population density of . The total area is . Yokosuka is the 11th-most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region. The city i ...

opened on June 16, 1889. Freight operations began in 1894. In May 1966, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail began operations from Ōfuna to

Yokohama Dreamland Yokohama Dreamland was an amusement park that operated in Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Totsuka, Yokohama, Japan from 1964 to 2002. The management company, :ja:日本ドリーム観光, Japan Dream Tourism, was acquired by the supermarket chain Daiei in ...

, an amusement park built some 7 km north of the station. However, the monorail stopped running in September 1967 after cracks were found in the guideway.Demery, Leroy W.
Monorails in Japan
', p.25. Carquinez Associates, 2005. The monorail station was eventually decommissioned in 1992 and its former site is now an apartment block. On March 7, 1970, another monorail began operations from Ōfuna to the south. This

eventually connected the station to

Enoshima is a small offshore island, about in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River which flows into the Sagami Bay of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Administratively, Enoshima is part of the mainland city of Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Fujisawa, and is ...

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 97,118 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 42nd-busiest station operated by JR East. A total of 4,817,536 passengers used the Shōnan Monorail station in fiscal 2012. The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for JR East in previous years are as shown below.

References

External links

JR East Ōfuna Station

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