Operated by JR East Passengers () 569 daily Opened 1931 | ||
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Location 1 Ōgimachi, Kawasaki, Kawasaki, Kanagawa（川崎市川崎区扇町1）Japan Similar Ōgimachi Station, Ōkawa Station, Musashi‑Shiraishi Station, Hama‑Kawasaki Station, Asano Station | ||
Shōwa Station (昭和駅, Shōwa-eki) is a railway station operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Lines
Shōwa Station is served by the Tsurumi Line, and is 6.4 kilometers from the terminus at Tsurumi Station.
Station layout
Shōwa Station has a single side platform serving bi-directional traffic.
History
Shōwa Station was opened on March 20, 1931 as a temporary stop on the privately held Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (鶴見臨港鉄道, Tsurumi Rinkō Tetsudō). Tsurumi Rinkō Railway was nationalized into the Japanese Government Railways on July 1, 1943. at which time the stop was upgraded to a full station. The station has been unattended since March 1, 1971. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways on April 1, 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). The Showa Denko factory still exists next to the station.