Kamoi Station
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JR East
Yokohama LineJH18 Kamoi Station 鴨居駅 | |||||||||||||||
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 Kamoi Station South Exit, May 2021 | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kamoi-cho 1-8-14, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 226-0003 Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°30′39.1″N 139°34′1.5″E / 35.510861°N 139.567083°E | ||||||||||||||
| Operated by | JR East | ||||||||||||||
| Line | Yokohama Line | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 10.9 km from Higashi-Kanagawa | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi ) | ||||||||||||||
| Station code | JH18 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 December 1962 | ||||||||||||||
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| FY2019 | 39,588 daily | ||||||||||||||
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Kamoi Station (鴨居駅, Kamoi-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Kamoi Station is served by the Yokohama Line from Higashi-Kanagawa to Hachiōji, and is 10.9 km from the official starting point of the line at Higashi-Kanagawa. Many services continue west of Higashi-Kanagawa via the Negishi Line to Sakuragicho during the offpeak, and to Ōfuna during the morning peak.
Station layout
The station consists of a single island platform serving two elevated tracks with the station building underneath. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Platforms
| 1 | Yokohama Line |
for Machida, Hashimoto and Hachioji |
| 2 | Yokohama Line |
for Higashi-Kanagawa, Yokohama, Sakuragicho, and Ōfuna |
History
Kamoi Station was opened on 25 December 1962 as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. A new station building was completed in 1998.
Station numbering was introduced on 20 August 2016 with Kamoi being assigned station number JH18.[1][2]
Passenger statistics
Surrounding area
- Yokohama City Kamoi Elementary School
- Yokohama City Kamoi Junior High School
- Yokohama City Higashikamoi Junior High School
- Kanagawa Prefectural Hakusan High School
