Sōbudaishita Station

Sōbudaishita Station

相武台下駅
Sōbudaishita Station; 相武台下駅
	Sōbudaishita Station, June 2021
General information
Location	Shindo 1940, Minami-ku, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa-ken 252-0326; Japan
Coordinates	35.49325°N 139.38633°E
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	■ Sagami Line
Distance	20.6 km from Chigasaki.
Platforms	1 island platform
Connections	Bus stop;
Other information
Status	Unstaffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	April 29, 1931
Previous names	Zama-Shindo; Rikushimae (until 1940)
Passengers
FY2014	1,241 daily (boarding passengers)
Services
Location
	Sōbudaishita Station Location within Kanagawa Prefecture Sōbudaishita Station Sōbudaishita Station (Japan)

Sōbudaishita Station (相武台下駅, Sōbudaishita-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Sōbudaishita Station is served by the Sagami Line, and is located 20.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Chigasaki.

Station layout

The station consists of a single island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unattended.

Platforms

1	■ Sagami Line	for Chigasaki
2	■ Sagami Line	for Hashimoto

History

Sōbudaishita Station was opened on April 29, 1931 as Zamashindo Station (座間新戸駅, Zama-Shindo-eki) on the Sagami Railway. With the opening of the nearby Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Rikugun Shikan Gakkō, or Rikushi), the station was renamed Rikushimae Station (陸士前駅, Rikushimae-eki) on September 28, 1938. However, amid the counter-intelligence movement of eliminating the names of military facilities from maps, the station was soon renamed to its present name in 1940.[1] On June 1, 1944, the Sagami Railway was nationalized and merged with the Japanese Government Railways. Freight services were discontinued from October 1962. On April 1, 1987, with the dissolution and privatization of the Japanese National Railways, the station came under the operation of JR East. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC card system came into operation from November 2001. A station master's office was added in 2004.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 1,241 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]

Surrounding area

Camp Zama

References

See, generally, Imao, Keisuke (August 7, 2009). 日中戦争後に相次いで変えられた軍事施設駅名 [Military-Facilities Station Names Changed in Succession after the Second Sino-Japanese War] (in Japanese). Hakusuisha. Archived from the original on September 23, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
各駅の乗車人員 (2014年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2014)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2020.

External links

Media related to Sōbudaishita Station at Wikimedia Commons

Station information page (in Japanese)

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[1] See, generally, Imao, Keisuke (August 7, 2009). 日中戦争後に相次いで変えられた軍事施設駅名 [Military-Facilities Station Names Changed in Succession after the Second Sino-Japanese War] (in Japanese). Hakusuisha. Archived from the original on September 23, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2010.

[jreast2014stats-2] 各駅の乗車人員 (2014年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2014)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2020.