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Kitano Station (Tokyo)

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Operated by
  
Keio Corporation

Station code
  
KO33

Opened
  
1925

Platforms in use
  
2

Line(s)
  
Keiō Line Takao Line

Passengers (FY2015)
  
22,357

Phone
  
+81 42-637-2761

Kitano Station (Tokyo)

Location
  
335-1 Kochigoshi-machi, Hachiōji, Tokyo (東京都八王子市打越町335-1 ) Japan

Address
  
Japan, 〒192-0911 東京都八王子市打越町335−1

Similar
  
Naganuma Station, Keiō‑hachiōji Station, Katakura Station, Keiō‑katakura Station, Takao Station

Kitano Station (北野駅, Kitano-eki) is a railway station in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan operated by Keio Corporation.

Contents

Lines

Kitano Station is a junction of the Keiō and Takao Lines. It is and is located 36.1 kilometers from the starting point of the Keio Line at Shinjuku Station and is a terminus of the Takao Line.

Services

All six types of train service stop at this station: local, rapid, semi express, express, semi special express, and special express trains.

Trains run 0445-0050 weekdays and 0450-0045 weekends. The typical hourly weekday off-peak service is:

  • 9 trains to Shinjuku, of which:
  • 3 are Semi-Special Express (Takahatafudō, Seiseki-sakuragaoka, Bubaigawara, Fuchū, Chōfu, Meidaimae, Shinjuku)
  • 6 are Local
  • 6 trains to Keiō Hachiōji
  • 6 trains to Takao-Sanguchi, of which:
  • 3 are Semi-Special Express (Mejirodai, Takao, Takao-Sanguchi)
  • 3 are Local
  • The typical hourly weekend off-peak service is:

  • 12 trains to Shinjuku, of which:
  • 6 are Semi-Special Express
  • 6 are Local
  • 6 trains to Keiō Hachiōji
  • 6 Local trains to Takao-Sanguchi
  • Station layout

    The station has two elevated island platforms serving four tracks. Tracks 1 and 2 are for Keiō Line trains bound for Keio Hachiōji Station and Takao Line trains bound for Takao Station. Tracks 3 and 4 head for Shinjuku Station.

    History

    The station opened on March 24, 1925 as a stop on the Gyokunan Electric Railway, which was absorbed into the Keio Electric Tramway on December 1, 1926. The Goryō Line opened to Tama-Goryō-mae on March 20, 1931 but was suspended on January 21, 1945.

    After the war, on October 1, 1967, Keio Teito Electric Railway opened the Takao Line to Takao-Sanguchi, part of which used the old Goryō Line. The station was elevated in the early 1990s. Semi Special Express services began calling here following their creation on March 27, 2001.

    References

    Kitano Station (Tokyo) Wikipedia