is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines Kurihama Station is served by the Yokosuka Line. It is the southern terminus of the line and is located from Ōfuna Station, and from the start of the line at Tokyo Station. It is also located 3 minutes' walk from Keikyū Kurihama Station on the Keikyū Kurihama Line.
Station layout Kurihama Station has a single island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Platforms
History Kurihama Station opened on 1 April 1944 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR).Kurihama Station information. Retrieved on 28 August 2008 Freight operations were discontinued from October 1, 1974. The station came under the management of JR East upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. The station was served by Shōnan-Shinjuku Line trains when the new service started in December 2001, but services as far as Kurihama were discontinued from October 2004.
Passenger statistics In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 6,338 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.
Fiscal year daily average 2005 6,901 2010 6,876 2015 6,767
Surrounding area Kurihama Station is adjacent to JR East's Yokohama Training Center."横浜総合訓練センターにも新訓練車登場" (New training set for Yokohama Training Center) . (13 August 2008). Retrieved on 28 August 2008.
See also List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Kurihama Station information (JR East)