is a passenger

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located in

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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 ...

, Japan, operated by

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(JR East).

Lines

Shōwa Station is served by the

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, and is from the terminus of the line at

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Station layout

Shōwa Station has a single

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serving bi-directional traffic. The station is unattended.

Platform

History

Shōwa Station was opened on 20 March 1931 as a temporary stop on the privately held . Tsurumi Rinkō Railway was

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into the

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on 1 July 1943. at which time the stop was upgraded to a full station. The station has been unattended since 1 March 1971. Upon the

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of the

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on 1 April 1987 the station has been operated by JR East. The station was named Shōwa because it was adjacent to a factory of Shōwa Fertilizer Company (present-day

Showa Denko , founded in 1939 by the merger of Nihon Electrical Industries and Showa Fertilizers, both established by a Japanese entrepreneur Nobuteru Mori, is a Japanese chemical company producing chemical products and industrial materials. SDK's products ...

). The Showa Denko factory still exists next to the station.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 569 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* Showa Denko Kawasaki Office * Toa Oil Keihin Refinery Ogimachi Factory * JFE Steel East Japan Works Keihin District

References

External links

Shōwa Station
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