Station code SI24 Address Japan | Passengers (FY2014) 12,103 daily Opened 1915 | |
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Location 880 Bushi, Iruma-shi, Saitama-ken（埼玉県入間市仏子880）Japan Similar | ||
Bushi Station (仏子駅, Bushi-eki) is a railway station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line in Iruma, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway.
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Lines
Bushi Station is served by the Seibu Ikebukuro Line from Ikebukuro in Tokyo, with some services inter-running via the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line to Shin-Kiba and the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line to Shibuya and onward via the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Minato Mirai Line to Motomachi-Chukagai. Located between Irumashi and Motokaji, it is 39.7 km from the Ikebukuro terminus.
Service pattern
Trains that stop here:
Station layout
The station consists of two ground-level side platforms serving two tracks, with a bidirectional centre track in between the two platform tracks for use by passing non-stop trains.
History
The station opened on 15 April 1915.
Station numbering was introduced on all Seibu Railway lines during fiscal 2012, with Bushi Station becoming "SI24".
Through-running to and from Yokohama and Motomachi-Chukagai via the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Minatomirai Line commenced on 16 March 2013.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, the station was the 62nd busiest on the Seibu network with an average of 12,193 passengers daily. Bushi station was the only station on the Ikebukuro-Hannō section of the Seibu Ikebukuro Line to see a decrease in the number of users between fiscal 2012 and 2013.
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.