Kurihama Station

Kurihama Station (久里浜駅, Kurihama-eki) is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

JO01 Kurihama Station 久里浜駅
Kurihama Station, March 2021
General information
Location	1 Kurihama, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken 239-0831 Japan
Coordinates	35°13′59″N 139°42′03″E
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	JO Yokosuka Line
Distance	73.2 km from Tokyo
Platforms	1 island platform
Connections	Bus terminal
Other information
Status	Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi)
Station code	JO01
Website	Official website
History
Opened	1 April 1944
Passengers
FY2019	6,338 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Terminus Yokosuka Line Kinugasa JO02 towards Tokyo
Location Kurihama Station Location within Kanagawa Prefecture Show map of Kanagawa Prefecture Kurihama Station Kurihama Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Lines

Kurihama Station is served by the Yokosuka Line. It is the southern terminus of the line and is located 23.9 km from Ōfuna Station, and 73.2 km from the Tokyo Station. It is also located 3 minutes' walk from Keikyū Kurihama Station on the Keikyū Kurihama Line.

Station layout

Kurihama Station has a single island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1/2

JO Yokosuka Line

for Zushi, Ōfuna, Yokohama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Narita Airport

History

Kurihama Station opened on 1 April 1944 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR).^[1] Freight operations were discontinued from October 1, 1974. The station came under the management of JR East upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. The station was served by Shōnan-Shinjuku Line trains when the new service started in December 2001, but services as far as Kurihama were discontinued from October 2004.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 6,338 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[2]

The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	daily average
2005	6,901[3]
2010	6,876[4]
2015	6,767[5]

Surrounding area

Kurihama Station is adjacent to JR East's Yokohama Training Center.^[6]

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. Kurihama Station information. Retrieved on 28 August 2008 (in Japanese)
2. 各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
3. 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成18年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
4. 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成23年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
5. 神奈川県県勢要覧（平成28年度 [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
6. "横浜総合訓練センターにも新訓練車登場" (New training set for Yokohama Training Center) Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine. (13 August 2008). Retrieved on 28 August 2008. (in Japanese)

External links

Media related to Kurihama Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Kurihama Station information (JR East) (in Japanese)