Shōwa Station (Kanagawa)

Railway station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

JI09
Shōwa Station

昭和駅

Shōwa Station entrance October 2018

General information
Location| 1 Ōgimachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210-0867
Japan
Coordinates| 35°30′24.61″N 139°43′26.03″E﻿ / ﻿35.5068361°N 139.7238972°E﻿ / 35.5068361; 139.7238972
Operated by|  JR East
Line(s)| JI Tsurumi Line
Distance| 6.4 km from Tsurumi
Platforms| 1 side platform
Other information
Station code| JI09
Website| Official website
History
Opened| 1 July 1943; 81 years ago (1943-07-01)
Passengers
[1]| 569 daily
Services
| Preceding station  |  JR East | Following station

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Hama-Kawasaki

JI08

towards Tsurumi

|  | Tsurumi Line

Main Line

|  | Ōgimachi

JI10

Terminus

Location

Shōwa Station

Location within Kanagawa Prefecture

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Shōwa Station

Shōwa Station (Japan)

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Shōwa Station (昭和駅, Shōwa-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

## Lines

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Shōwa Station is served by the Tsurumi Line, and is 6.4 kilometers (4.0 mi) from the terminus of the line at Tsurumi Station

## Station layout

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Station platform, May 2008

Shōwa Station has a single side platform serving bi-directional traffic. The station is unattended.

### Platform

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/ | JI Tsurumi Line  | for Ōgimachi
for Asano, Bentembashi, and Tsurumi

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## History

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Shōwa Station entrance May 2008

Shōwa Station was opened on 20 March 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 1 July 1943.[2] at which time the stop was upgraded to a full station. The station has been unattended since 1 March 1971.[3] Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 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).[4] The Showa Denko factory still exists next to the station.

## Passenger statistics

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In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 569 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

## Surrounding area

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* Showa Denko Kawasaki Office
* Toa Oil Keihin Refinery Ogimachi Factory
* JFE Steel East Japan Works Keihin District

## See also

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* List of railway stations in Japan

## References

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1. ^ Kawasaki City statistics Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. Average number of boarding passengers in 2008.
2. ^ Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 71\. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
3. ^ "国電鶴見線の12駅- ラッシュ線、初の無人化 駅員76人"消えた"" [12 stations on the Tsurumi Line-Rush Line, the first unmanned station staff 76" disappeared]. Mainichi Shimbun. March 1, 1971. p. 3.
4. ^ Sutēshon Kurabu, ed. (1988). Eki—JR Zensen Zen'eki (Jō) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Bungeishunjū. p. 64\. ISBN 4-16-748701-2.

## External links

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Media related to Shōwa Station (Kanagawa) at Wikimedia Commons

* Shōwa Station (in Japanese)

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Stations of the Tsurumi Line

* Tsurumi
* Kokudō
* Tsurumi-Ono
* Bentembashi
* Asano
* Anzen
* Musashi-Shiraishi
* Hama-Kawasaki
* Shōwa
* Ōgimachi

Umi-Shibaura Branch:|

* Asano
* Shin-Shibaura
* Umi-Shibaura

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* Anzen
* Ōkawa

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