Musashi-Sakai Station

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Musashi-Sakai
武蔵境
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South gate of the station
Location Musashino, Tokyo
Japan
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History
Opened 1889

Musashi-Sakai Station (武蔵境駅 Musashi-sakai-eki?) is a railway station in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Seibu Railway.

Lines

Musashi-Sakai Station is served by the JR East Chūō Main Line, and is also the northern terminus of the short Seibu Tamagawa Line. It is not a major transfer station, and only local (all-stations) trains on the Chūō Line stop at Musashi-sakai.

Station layout

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Musashi-Sakai Station South Exit in 2007

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Adjacent stations

« Service »
Chūō Line (Rapid)
Mitaka Higashi-Koganei
Seibu Tamagawa Line
Terminus Shin-Koganei

Surrounding area

The area around Musashi-sakai has the standard commercial activity common to suburban Tokyo train stations, with a branches of the Ito Yokado department store, JR-owned Hotel Mets, and the Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, as well as a shopping street with many restaurants and small shops on the north side. The station has the standard taxi rank and bus stops, servicing bus routes between there and Hibarigaoka Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line to the north and Chōfu Station on the Keiō Line to the south.

It is the nearest train station to International Christian University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan headquarters. Tama (formerly Tamabochimae), the second stop on the line, serves The American School in Japan, Nogawa Park, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and other institutions.

History

The station opened on 11 April 1889.[1][2]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 65,331 passengers daily (boarding passengers only) making it the 67th busiest JR East station.[3] In the same fiscal year, the station was the busiest on the Seibu Tamagawa Line and the 32nd busiest on the Seibu network as a whole with an average of 29,194 passengers daily.[4]

The passenger figures in previous years are as shown below. Note that the JR East figures only consider boarding passengers whereas the Seibu figures consider both entering and exiting passengers.

Fiscal year Daily average
JR East Seibu
2005 60,084[5] 26,679[6]
2010 61,666[7] 28,142[8]
2011 61,021[9] 27,390[10]
2012 62,706[11] 28,281[12]
2013 65,331[3] 29,194[4]

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