Aikō-Ishida Station

Aikō-Ishida Station (愛甲石田駅, Aikō-Ishida-eki) is a railway station on the Odakyu Electric Railway’s Odakyu Odawara Line in the city of Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Part of the station physically extends into neighboring Isehara city. The station is 48.5 rail kilometers from the line’s terminal at Shinjuku Station.


Aikō-Ishida Station

愛甲石田駅
North Exit of Aikō-Ishida Station, 2008
LocationAikō, Atsugi, Kanagawa
（神奈川県厚木市愛甲）
Japan
Operated byOdakyu Electric Railway
Line(s)Odakyu Odawara Line
Connections
  • Bus terminal
History
Opened1927
Traffic
Passengers (2008)49,005 daily
Services
Preceding station   Odakyu   Following station
toward Odawara
Odawara Line
Rapid Express
toward Shinjuku
Odawara Line
Express
toward Shinjuku or Ayase
Terminus
Odawara Line
Semi Express
toward Ayase
Odawara Line
Local
toward Shinjuku or Ayase

Station history

Aikō-Ishida Station was opened on April 1, 1927, on the Odakyu Odawara Line of the Odakyu Electric Railway with normal and 6-car limited express services. A limited number of romancecar express trains began serving the station from 1987, the same year that the new station building was completed.

The station was named after Aikō, Atsugi and adjacent Ishida, Isehara.

Lines

Bus connections
  • There is a bus to Shoin University which takes 15 minutes during off-peak traffic.

Building

Aikō-Ishida Station has two opposed side platforms with two tracks, connected to the station building by an overpass. The station building is built on a cantilever extending on top and at right angles to the rails and platforms.

Platforms
1 ■ Odakyu Odawara Line Westbound (For Shin-Matsuda, and Odawara)
2 ■ Odakyu Odawara Line Eastbound (For Sagami-Ono, Shin-Yurigaoka, Yoyogi-Uehara, Chiyoda line Ayase, and Shinjuku)

Surrounding area

References
    • This article contains a translation of items from the equivalent page on the Japanese language Wikipedia.

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