Higashi-Washinomiya Station

Higashi-Washinomiya 東鷲宮駅
Higashi-Washinomiya Station west exit, April 2008
Location	326 Nishiowa, Kuki-shi, Saitama-ken （埼玉県久喜市西大輪326） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	■ Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1981
Traffic

Passengers (FY2014)	10,280 daily^[1]

Staggered platforms of Higashi-Washinomiya Station

Higashi-Washinomiya Station (東鷲宮駅, Higashi-Washinomiya-eki) is a railway station on the Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Higashi-Washinomiya Station is served by the Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, and lies 51.6 kilometers from the starting point of the Tohoku Main Line at Tokyo.

Station layout

This station has two opposed side platforms, however, with an unusual layout in that the platforms are not on the same level. Utsunomiya-bound trains stop at a ground level side-platform serving one track. Omiya-bound trains stop at an elevated side-platform serving one track. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Utsunomiya Line	for Utsunomiya, Kuroiso
2	■ Utsunomiya Line	for Ōmiya, and Tokyo

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Utsunomiya Line
Commuter Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Kuki	-	Kurihashi

History

Higashi-Washinomiya Station opened on 15 April 1981 as a freight station, and opened for passenger service from 23 June 1982. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

Surrounding area

Higashi-Washinomiya Hyaku-Kannon Onsen

References

↑ 各駅の乗車人員 (2014年度) [FY2014 station passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

External links

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JR East station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Utsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line)

Ueno Oku Akabane Urawa Saitama-Shintoshin Ōmiya Toro Higashi-Ōmiya Hasuda Shiraoka Shin-Shiraoka Kuki Higashi-Washinomiya Kurihashi Koga Nogi Mamada Oyama Koganei Jichiidai Ishibashi Suzumenomiya Utsunomiya Okamoto Hōshakuji Ujiie Kamasusaka Kataoka Yaita Nozaki Nishi-Nasuno Nasushiobara Kuroiso (>> Kōriyama, Sendai, Morioka)

Stations of the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line

Takasaki Line - Tōkaidō Main Line	(Maebashi Shin-Maebashi Ino Takasakitonyamachi) Takasaki Kuragano Shimmachi Jimbohara Honjō Okabe Fukaya Kagohara Kumagaya Gyōda Fukiage Kita-Kōnosu Kōnosu Kitamoto Okegawa Kita-Ageo Ageo Miyahara Ōmiya Urawa Akabane Ikebukuro Shinjuku Shibuya Ebisu Ōsaki Musashi-Kosugi Yokohama Totsuka Ōfuna Fujisawa Tsujidō Chigasaki Hiratsuka Ōiso Ninomiya Kōzu Kamonomiya Odawara

Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line	Utsunomiya Suzumenomiya Ishibashi Jichi-idai Koganei Oyama Mamada Nogi Koga Kurihashi Higashi-Washinomiya Kuki Shin-Shiraoka Shiraoka Hasuda Higashi-Ōmiya Toro Ōmiya Urawa Akabane Ikebukuro Shinjuku Shibuya Ebisu Ōsaki Nishi-Ōi Musashi-Kosugi Shin-Kawasaki Yokohama Hodogaya Higashi-Totsuka Totsuka Ōfuna Kita-Kamakura Kamakura Zushi

Coordinates: 36°5′22.0236″N 139°40′45.26″E / 36.089451000°N 139.6792389°E / 36.089451000; 139.6792389

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