Hirama Station

Hirama Station 平間駅
File:Hirama-Sta.JPG Hirama Station entrance in November 2011
Location	Tajiri-chō, Nakahara, Kawasaki, Kanagawa （神奈川県川崎市中原区田尻町） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Nambu Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1927
Traffic
Passengers (FY2008)	14,303 daily

Hirama Station (平間駅, Hirama-eki) is a railway station on the Nambu Line in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Hirama Station is served by the Nambu Line from Kawasaki to Tachikawa, and lies 5.3 km from the southern terminus of the Nambu Line at Kawasaki.

Station layout

Hirama Station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected by a footbridge.

Platforms

1	■ Nambu Line	for Kawasaki
2	■ Nambu Line	for Musashi-Kosugi, Musashi-Mizonokuchi, Noborito, and Tachikawa

Facilities

• Kiosk
• Lavatory
• Automatic ticket barriers

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Nambu Line
Rapid: no stop
Kashimada		Local		Mukaigawara

History

Hirama Station opened as a station on the Nambu Railway on March 9, 1927. The stop was upgraded to become a full station along with nationalization of Nambu Railway on April 1, 1944, into the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) system, which became part of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) from 1949. Along with privatization and division of JNR, JR East started operating the station on April 1, 1987.

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

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

External links

• JR East Station information (Japanese)