Isogo Station

Isogo Station (磯子駅, Isogo-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Isogo Station is served by the Negishi Line from Yokohama to Ōfuna in Kanagawa Prefecture. with through services inter-running to and from the Keihin-Tōhoku Line and also the Yokohama Line. It is 9.5 kilometers from the terminus of the Negishi line at Yokohama, and 68.6 kilometers from the northern terminus of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line at Ōmiya.

Station layout

The station consists of a single island platform with a two tracks and an elevated station building above the platform and tracks. Both tracks are utilised by the Keihin-Tohoku Line and Yokohama Line; track 1 serves southbound trains to Ōfuna whilst track 2 serves northbound trains to Yokohama and Tokyo. The station is staffed. An adjacent side platform formerly used to support freight operations, was sold to the Nisshin OilliO Group.

Platforms

History

Isogo Station opened on May 9, 1964 as the terminus of the Negishi Line until the line was extended to Yōkōdai in 1970. All freight operations were suspended from October 1986. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1987. The station building was extensively remodelled in 2000 with the addition of ticket gates, automatic ticket machines, and new ticket windows.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 20,199 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

• Isogo Ward General Government Building
• Isogo Ward Office
• Yokohama City Isogo Library
• Isogo Public Hall
• Koshinkai Shiomidai Hospital

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

Media related to Isogo Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in Japanese)