Operated by JR East Passengers (FY2008) 31,511 daily Opened 1887 | Connections Bus terminal Address Japan | |
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Location Iwai-chō, Hodogaya, Yokohama, Kanagawa
（神奈川県横浜市保土ケ谷区岩井町）
Japan Line(s) Yokosuka Line
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Similar Tennōchō Station, Hoshikawa Station, Higashi‑Totsuka Station, Nishi‑Yokohama Station, Wadamachi Station | ||
The car window between the yokosuka line yokohama station hodogaya station
Hodogaya Station (保土ケ谷駅, Hodogaya-eki) is a railway station in Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
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Lines
Hodogaya Station is served by the Yokosuka Line and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and is 31.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Yokosuka Line at Tokyo Station.
Station layout
The station has a single island platform serving two tracks which are jointly used by trains of both the Yokosuka Line and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line. Trains of the Tōkaidō Main Line 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 Tokaido Line, 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.
History
Hodogaya Station was opened on July 11, 1887 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the predecessor to the post-war Japanese National Railways (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 保土ヶ谷 (Hodogaya), originally the station was named 程ヶ谷 (Hodogaya). 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 privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2008, the station was used by an average of 31,511 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).