is a railway station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line and its branch, the Haijima Line, in the city of Kodaira, Tokyo

Kodaira, Tokyo

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Platforms

The station has two island platforms facing four tracks.

• Track 1 is bound for Tamagawa Jōsui and other stations on the Seibu Haijima Line.
• Track 2 heads north towards Tokorozawa
  Tokorozawa Station
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   and ultimately ends at Hon-Kawagoe Station
  Hon-Kawagoe Station
  is a Seibu Railway station located in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan. The station is the terminal of the Seibu Shinjuku Line, which links Tokyo and Kawagoe. This is one of three main stations of the city; the other two are Kawagoe Station and Kawagoeshi Station....
  
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• Tracks 3 and 4 head east towards Tanashi
  Tanashi Station
  is a train station in Nishitōkyō, Tokyo, Japan.- Adjacent stations :...
  
  , Takadanobaba
  Takadanobaba Station
  is a railway station in the Takadanobaba area of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward. Situated between the commercial districts of Ikebukuro and Shinjuku, it is a minor commuting hub linking the Seibu Shinjuku Line and the Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line with the Yamanote Line.-Lines:...
  
  , and other stations on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.

Adjacent stations

Neighborhood and Location

Kodaira Station has South and North Exits. Near the South Exit are the Kodaira Seiyu

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 Department Store, a public building named Rune, a high school run by the government of Tokyo, and, about 1.75 km distant, Shin-Kodaira Station

Shin-Kodaira Station

is a railway station in Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company .-Lines:Shin-Kodaira Station is served by the Musashino Line between Fuchū-Hommachi and Nishi-Funabashi, with some trains continuing to Tokyo via the Keiyō Line....

 on the JR

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 Musashino Line

Musashino Line

The is a railway line operated by the East Japan Railway Company . It links Tsurumi Station in Yokohama with Nishi-Funabashi Station in Chiba Prefecture, forming a 100.6 km unclosed loop around central Tokyo...

. The North Exit is convenient to the Kodaira Metropolitan Cemetery and to McDonald's.

History

The station opened on April 16, 1927. In 1928, the adjacent Moto-Kodaira Station opened. They were joined in 1949.

Services

Trains run from this station 0505-0120 Weekdays, 0505-0045 Weekends.

The typical off-peak service is:

Shinjuku Line 'up'

• 14 trains an hour in the Seibu-Shinjuku direction, of which:
  • 2 are Haijima Rapids to Seibu-Shinjuku (Tanashi, Kami-shakujii, Sagimoniya, Takadanobaba, Seibu-Shinjuku)
  • 2 are Expresses to Seibu-Shinjuku (all stations to Tanashi, Kami-Shakujii, Saginomiya, Takadanobaba, Seibu-Shinjuku)
  • 2 are Semi-Expresses to Seibu-Shinjuku (all stations to Kami-Shakujii, Saginomiya, Takadanobaba, Seibu-Shinjuku)
  • 6 are Locals to Seibu-Shinjuku
  • 2 are Locals to Tanashi

Shinjuku Line 'down'

• 6 Local trains to Shin-Tokorozawa
  • of which 5 continue to Hon-Kawagoe

Haijima Line 'down'

• 11 trains an hour, of which:
  • 6 are Locals to Tamagawa-Jōsui
    • of which 2 continue to Haijima
  • 2 are Haijima Rapids to Haijima (Tamagawa-Jōsui, then all stations)
  • 3 are Locals to Seibu-Yūenchi, running through to the Seibu Tamako Line at Hagiyama (these trains start here).

Source

This article contains material translated from 小平駅 (Kodaira Station) in the Japanese Wikipedia, accessed June 17, 2008.

External links

• Seibu Railway page on Kodaira Station