Kitano Station (Tokyo)

Kitano Station 北野駅
File:Keio Kitano Station.jpg Kitano Station, March 2008
Location	Hachiōji, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	Keio Corporation
Line(s)	Keiō Line Takao Line
Other information
Station code	KO33
History
Opened	1925

Kitano Station (北野駅, Kitano-eki) is a railway station in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan, and is a junction of the Keiō and Takao Lines of Keio Corporation. It was built in 1925.

Services

All six types of train service stop at this station: local, rapid, semi express, express, semi special express, and special express trains.

Trains run 0445-0050 weekdays and 0450-0045 weekends. The typical hourly weekday off-peak service is:

• 9 trains to Shinjuku, of which:
  • 3 are Semi-Special Express (Takahatafudō, Seiseki-sakuragaoka, Bubaigawara, Fuchū, Chōfu, Meidaimae, Shinjuku)
  • 6 are Local
• 6 trains to Keiō Hachiōji
• 6 trains to Takao-Sanguchi, of which:
  • 3 are Semi-Special Express (Mejirodai, Takao, Takao-Sanguchi)
  • 3 are Local

The typical hourly weekend off-peak service is:

• 12 trains to Shinjuku, of which:
  • 6 are Semi-Special Express
  • 6 are Local
• 6 trains to Keiō Hachiōji
• 6 Local trains to Takao-Sanguchi

Station layout

The station has two elevated island platforms serving four tracks. Tracks 1 and 2 are for Keiō Line trains bound for Keio Hachiōji Station and Takao Line trains bound for Takao Station. Tracks 3 and 4 head for Shinjuku Station.

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Keiō Line
Takahatafudō		Special Express		Keiō-Hachiōji
Takahatafudō		Semi Special Express		Keiō-Hachiōji
Takahatafudō		Express		Keiō-Hachiōji
Naganuma		Semi Express		Keiō-Hachiōji
Naganuma		Rapid		Keiō-Hachiōji
Naganuma		Local		Keiō-Hachiōji
Keiō Takao Line
Takahatafudō		Special Express		Mejirodai
Takahatafudō		Semi Special Express		Keiō-Katakura
Takahatafudō		Express		Mejirodai
Naganuma		Semi Express		Keiō-Katakura
Naganuma		Rapid		Keiō-Katakura
Naganuma		Local		Keiō-Katakura

History

The station opened on March 24, 1925 as a stop on the Gyokunan Electric Railway, which was absorbed into the Keio Electric Tramway on December 1, 1926. The Goryō Line opened to Tama-Goryō-mae on March 20, 1931 but was suspended on January 21, 1945.

After the war, on October 1, 1967, Keio Teito Electric Railway opened the Takao Line to Takao-Sanguchi, part of which used the old Goryō Line. The station was elevated in the early 1990s. Semi Special Express services began calling here following their creation on March 27, 2001.

External links

• Kitano Station information (Japanese)