Kanazawa-hakkei Station

KK50
Kanazawa-hakkei Station

金沢八景駅
KK50 ; Kanazawa-hakkei Station; 金沢八景駅
	The station entrance in February 2012
General information
Location	15-1 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken; Japan
Operated by	■ Keikyu; Yokohama Seaside Line;
Line(s)	KK Keikyu Main Line; KK Keikyu Zushi Line; Kanazawa Seaside Line;
Connections	Bus stop
Other information
Station code	KK50
History
Opened	1 April 1930
Passengers
FY2008	54,173 (Keikyu) daily
Services
Location

Kanazawa-hakkei Station (金沢八景駅, Kanazawa-hakkei-eki) is a junction railway station in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keikyu.

Lines

Kanazawa-hakkei Station is served by the Keikyū Main Line and is located 40.9 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Shinagawa Station, in Tokyo. It is also a terminal station for both the Keikyū Zushi Line and the Kanazawa Seaside Line, with the Kanazawa Seaside Line station located approximately 150 m to the east of the Keikyū station.

Station layout

Kanazawa-hakkei Station is an elevated station with two island platforms serving four tracks. Track 4 is dual-gauge (1,067 mm narrow gauge and 1,435 mm standard gauge) to allow narrow-gauge rolling stock to be moved at night from the nearby J-TREC factory to JR tracks via Zushi Station.

Keikyū platforms

1	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokosuka-chūō, Uraga, and Misakiguchi
2	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokosuka-chūō, Uraga, and Misakiguchi
2	■ Keikyū Zushi Line	for Zushi·Hayama
3	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokohama, Shinagawa, Haneda Airport, and Oshiage
4	■ Keikyū Main Line	for Yokohama, Shinagawa, Haneda Airport, and Oshiage
4	■ Keikyū Zushi Line	for Zushi·Hayama

The platforms in October 2007
The view from the north end of platform 3/4, with the dual-gauge track from the J-TREC factory visible on the left, June 2010
The view from the south end of platform 3/4, with the dual-gauge track to Jinmuji Station visible on the right, June 2010

Kanazawa Seaside Line platforms

The Kanazawa Seaside Line station is located south of the Keikyū station, and is an elevated single track, single side platform station for bi-directional traffic. The Kanazawa Seaside Line station is a temporary station, with construction connecting the Seaside Line to the Keikyū station beginning in early 2016.^{[citation needed]} On 26 January 2019, the new entrance to the Keikyu side opened. The old entrance on the Keikyu side was made redundant and it is not possible to use the entrance because the stairs leading up to the platforms were blocked.

1	■ Kanazawa Seaside Line	for Hakkeijima, Torihama, and Shin-Sugita

History

The area near the station in April 1988

Kanazawa-hakkei Station was opened on April 1, 1930, as a station on the Shonan Electric Railway, which merged with the Keihin Electric Railway in 1941. The station was rebuilt in July 1987.^{[citation needed]}

The name Kanazawa Hakkei ("Eight Views of Kanazawa") is taken from the name of a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints of eight places in the area, which were made between 1835 and 1836, by Andō Hiroshige.

Since 2010, all Limited Express (Kaitoku) trains stop at this station.

References

Miura, Kazuo. Keikyū　Kakuekiteisha to Kamakura Monogatari. Inban Publishing　(1998). ISBN 4-8083-0624-7 (in Japanese)

External links

Keikyu Kanazawa-hakkei Station (in Japanese)

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Kanazawa-hakkei Station

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