Toride Station
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JJ10 JL32 Toride Station 取手駅 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toride Station west entrance, June 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 2 Chūō-chō, Toride-shi, Ibaraki-ken 302-0014 Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°53′47″N 140°03′47″E / 35.896451°N 140.063123°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 51.1 km from Nippori | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 4 island platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 December 18966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 27,277 daily (JR FY2019); 11,506 (Kanto, FY2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toride Station (取手駅, Toride-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is also shared by the private railway operator Kantō Railway.
Toride Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 37.4 km (23.2 mi) from the official starting point of the line at Nippori Station. It is a terminus of the 51.1 km (31.8 mi) Jōsō Line of the Kantō Railway.
Station layout

The JR East portion of the station has three elevated island platforms serving six tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The Kantō Railway portion of the station has a single ground level island platform.
Platforms
| 1/2 | for Abiko, Kashiwa, Matsudo and Ayase | |
| 3/4 | for Kashiwa, Matsudo, and Ueno | |
| 5 | for Kashiwa, Matsudo, and Ueno | |
| ■ Jōban Line | for Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Mito, Takahagi, and Iwaki | |
| 6 | ■ Jōban Line | for Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Mito, Takahagi, and Iwaki |
| 7/8 | ■ Jōsō Line | for Moriya, Mitsukaido, and Shimodate |
History
The station opened on 25 December 1896.[1] The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.
A 27-year-old Japanese man was arrested after stabbing 14 people outside of the west entrance of Toride Station on the morning of 17 December 2010. The suspect was alleged to have boarded a bus where he stabbed mostly high school and middle school students, before being subdued. None of the victims were seriously injured.[2][3][4]
Passenger statistics
Surrounding area
- former Toride-shuku
- Toride Velodrome