Yugawara Station

Yugawara Station 湯河原駅
The entrance.
Location	Mongawa, Yugawara, Ashigarakami, Kanagawa （神奈川県足柄上郡湯河原町門川） Japan
Operated by	East Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1924
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	6,579 daily

Station platform

Yugawara Station (湯河原駅, Yugawara-eki) is a railway station of Central Japan Railway Company in the town of Yugawara, Ashigarakami District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It serves the Tōkaidō Main Line, operated by JR East. The station is 99.4 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Station history

When work began on the Tōkaidō Main Line, technology for long tunneling was limited. Initially (from 1895) the line was routed from Yugawara north to Gotemba to avoid the mountains before reaching Numazu, Shizuoka. A station was opened at Yugawara on October 1, 1924. Service to Atami began the following year initially by human-powered trolleys, followed by a steam-driven omnibus. On December 1, 1934 the Tanna Tunnel was completed, and through service on the Tōkaidō Main Line to Mishima and Numazu begun. Freight services were discontinued in 1982 and small parcel service in 1985. On April 1, 1987 along with privatization and division of the Japan National Railways, East Japan Railway Company started operating this station.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Tōkaidō Main Line

Layout

Yugawara Station has an island platform, and a station building with automated ticket machines, Suica automated turnstiles and a manned "Green Window" service counter.

Adjacent stations

References

• Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1.(in Japanese)

Station gate

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yugawara Station.

• Official home page (in Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°08′45″N 139°06′08″E / 35.14583°N 139.10222°E / 35.14583; 139.10222