Motoyawata Station | |
Native Name: | 本八幡駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | 2-chome Yawata, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture 272-0021 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 35.7218°N 139.9269°W |
Platforms: | 2 island platforms (1 JR East, 1 Toei) |
Tracks: | 4 (2 for JR East, 2 for Toei) |
Structure: | Underground |
Status: | Staffed ("Midori no Madoguchi") |
Opened: | (JR East) |
Passengers: | 60,125 (JR); 40,500 (Toei) |
Pass Year: | FY2018 |
Map Type: | Japan Tokyo Bay and Boso Peninsula#Japan Chiba Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Motoyawata Station |
is a junction passenger railway station in the city of Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei Subway). It is the only station on the Toei Subway that is located in Chiba Prefecture.
Moto-Yawata Station is served by the Chūō-Sōbu Line of JR East and the Toei Shinjuku Line subway. The 23.5 kilometer Toei Shinjuku Line terminates at this station.
The station is divided into two sections: the elevated JR station and the underground subway station. The areas outside the ticket gates of the two sections are connected by a passage.
The JR station has one island platform serving two tracks.[1] There is no platform for rapid and limited express services on the two other tracks of the Sōbu Main Line.
The subway station also has one island platform serving two tracks. While one end of the subway station is connected to the JR East station, the other end is connected to Keisei Yawata Station on the Keisei Main Line.
The station opened on the Sōbu Main Line on September 1, 1935.[2] The Toei Shinjuku Line was extended to this station on March 19, 1989.
In fiscal 2018, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 60,125 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3] The Toei Subway portion of the station was used by 40,500 passengers daily[4]