Negishi Station (Kanagawa)

Negishi Station 根岸駅
File:JREast-Negishi-line-Negishi-station-platform.jpg Negishi Station platform
Location	Kanagawa-ken, Yokohama-shi, Isogo-ku, Higashi-chō 16-1, Isogo, Yokohama, Kanagawa （横浜市磯子区東町16-1） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1964
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	20,830 daily

Negishi Station (根岸駅, Negishi-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Negishi Line located in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is 7.1 kilometers from the terminus of the Negishi Line at Yokohama Station and 66.2 kilometers from the terminus of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line at Ōmiya Station. The station is also a freight terminal on the Japan Freight Railway Company, as well as the terminus for the all-freight Honmoku Line of the Kanagawa Rinkai Railway.

History

Negishi Station was opened on May 19, 1964, as a station on the Japan National Railways (JNR) for both passenger and freight services. The Kanagawa Rinkai Railway's Honmoku Line, also for freight-only operations, began operations from Neishi on October 1, 1969. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) in 1987.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Keihin-Tōhoku Line / Negishi Line, Yokohama Line
• Japan Freight Railway Company (freight only)
• Kanagawa Rinkai Railway (freight only)
  • Honmoku Line

Station layout

Negishi Station has an island platform serving two tracks for normal passenger operations, and an additional five tracks for freight operations.

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Isogo		Keihin-Tōhoku Line—Negishi Line		Yamate

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

External links

• (Japanese) JR East Negishi Station