Asano Station (浅野駅, Asano-eki) is a railway station on the Tsurumi Line in Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

JI05 Asano Station 浅野駅
Asano Station entrance, June 2015
General information
Location	2 Suehirochō, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa （横浜市鶴見区末広町2丁目） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	JI Tsurumi Line
History
Opened	1926
Passengers
FY2006	876 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Bentembashi JI04 towards Tsurumi Tsurumi Line Main Line Anzen JI06 towards Ōgimachi or Ōkawa Tsurumi Line Umi-Shibaura branch Shin-Shibaura JI51 towards Umi-Shibaura
Location
Asano Station Location within Kanagawa Prefecture Show map of Kanagawa Prefecture Asano Station Asano Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Lines

Asano Station is served by the Tsurumi Line, and forms a junction between the Tsurumi Main Line and Umi-Shibaura Branch Line. It is located 3.0 kilometers from the western terminus at Tsurumi Station.

Station layout

Asano Station has an island platform (platforms 1 and 2) and two opposed side platforms (platforms 3 and 4) serving four tracks.

Platforms

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  The Tsurumi Line mainline platforms (1 and 2), June 2015
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  The Umi-Shibaura Branch Line platforms (3 and 4), June 2015

History

The station opened on March 10, 1926, on the privately owned Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (鶴見臨港鉄道, Tsurumi Rinkō Tetsudō). The Tsurumi Rinkō line was nationalized on July 1, 1943, and was later absorbed into the Japanese National Railways (JNR) network. The station has been unstaffed since March 1, 1971.^{[citation needed]} Upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station has been operated by JR East.

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Asano Station (Kanagawa).

• JR East Asano Station (in Japanese)