Noborito Station


Noborito Station is an interchange railway station in the Noborito neighborhood of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company and the Odakyu Electric Railway.

Lines

It is 17.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Nambu Line at Kawasaki Station and 15.2 kilometers from the terminus of the Odawara Line at Shinjuku Station.

Station layout

JR Noborito Station has one side platform and one island platform serving three elevated tracks, connected by an underpass. The station is staffed. Odakyu Noborito Station is an elevated station with two island platforms serving four elevated tracks.

JR platforms

Odakyu platforms

History

Noborito Station opened as a station on the Nambu Railway on March 9, 1927. The adjacent Odawara Line station opened on April 1, 1927 as Inada-Tamagawa Station.
The Nambu Railway was nationalized on April 1, 1944 becoming part of the Japanese Government Railway system, which became the Japan National Railways from 1949.
The adjacent Odawara Line station was renamed Noborito-Tamagawa Station on April 1, 1955, and the name shortened to its present name on April 1, 1958.
Freight services were discontinued on the Nambu Line from April 1, 1972. Along with privatization and division of JNR, JR East started operating the Nambu Line station on April 1, 1987. The station building and platforms were extensively remodelled from 2003-2007.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 80,465 passengers daily, making it the 54th-busiest station operated by JR East. In fiscal 2013, the Odakyu station was used by an average of 160,413 passengers daily, making it the 5th-busiest station operated by Odakyu. The daily average passenger figures for JR East in previous years are as shown below.
Fiscal yearDaily average
200068,187
200567,284
201075,373
201176,259
201278,075
201380,465