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OFNJT07JK01JO09JS09 Ōfuna Station 大船駅
West entrance of JR East Ōfuna Station
General information
Location	1 Ōfuna, Kamakura, Kanagawa （神奈川県鎌倉市大船一丁目） Japan
Coordinates	35°21′12″N 139°31′52″E / 35.35333°N 139.53111°E / 35.35333; 139.53111
Operated by	JR East, Shonan Monorail
Line(s)	JT Tōkaidō Main Line JK Negishi Line JO Yokosuka Line JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Shōnan Monorail Enoshima Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	November 1, 1888
Passengers
JR, FY2013	97,118 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station OdawaraJT16towards Itō or Atami Odoriko YokohamaYHMJT05towards Tokyo FujisawaJT08towards Odawara Shōnan ShinagawaSGWJT03towards Tokyo FujisawaJT08towards Atami Tōkaidō Line TotsukaTTKJT06towards Tokyo Terminus Narita Express TotsukaTTKJO10towards Narita Airport Terminal 1 Kita-KamakuraJO08towards Kurihama Yokosuka Line TotsukaTTKJO10towards Tokyo FujisawaJT08towards Odawara Shōnan–Shinjuku LineSpecial RapidRapid TotsukaTTKJS10towards Takasaki, Maebashi or Utsunomiya Kita-KamakuraJS08towards Zushi Shōnan–Shinjuku LineRapidLocal Terminus Negishi Line HongōdaiJK02towards Yokohama Yokohama LineLocal HongōdaiJK02towards Hachiōji Preceding station Shonan Monorail Following station Fujimichō(SMR2)towards Shōnan-Enoshima Enoshima Line Terminus

Ōfuna Station (Japanese: 大船駅, Japanese pronunciation: [Ōfuna-eki]) is a railway station in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Shonan Monorail.

Lines

Ōfuna Station is served by the Tokaido Main Line, Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, Negishi Line (Keihin-Tōhoku Line), Yokosuka Line, as well as the Shonan Monorail. It is 46.5 km from the terminus of the Tōkaidō Main Line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Ōfuna Station is an elevated station with five island platforms serving a total of 11 tracks. The adjacent Shonan Monorail station has a single bay platform.

There are above-track station buildings at both ends of the platforms, toward Fujisawa and toward Totsuka, offering passage between lines inside the ticket gates. The Kashio River, which runs between the two current station buildings, is a city boundary, meaning that the end of the station near Fujisawa is in Kamakura, while the end toward Totsuka is in Sakae-ku, Yokohama. However, the station master's office is, as was before the station's rebuilding, on the Kamakura side, so the station is treated as a Kamakura station, and not considered to be within the city of Yokohama.

The Fujisawa-side station building has the southern ticket gates and connects to East and West exits. The station building is connected by a passageway beside the building to the Shonan Monorail station. There is also a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office and a View Plaza travel agency.

In the Totsuka-side station building is the northern ticket gate, connected to the Kasama Entrance.

Platforms

• The south end of the down Tokaido Line platforms (3-4), July 2015
• The station interior, July 2015

History

Ōfuna Station opened on November 1, 1888, as a station on the Tōkaidō Main Line. The Yokosuka Line between Ōfuna and Yokosuka opened on June 16, 1889. Freight operations began in 1894.

In May 1966, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail began operations from Ōfuna to Yokohama Dreamland, an amusement park built some 7 km north of the station. However, the monorail stopped running in September 1967 after cracks were found in the guideway. The monorail station was eventually decommissioned in 1992 and its former site is now an apartment block.

On March 7, 1970, another monorail began operations from Ōfuna to the south. This Shonan Monorail eventually connected the station to Enoshima.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 97,118 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 42nd-busiest station operated by JR East. A total of 4,817,536 passengers used the Shōnan Monorail station in fiscal 2012. The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for JR East in previous years are as shown below.

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 14, 80. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
2. Demery, Leroy W. Monorails in Japan, p.25. Carquinez Associates, 2005.
3. "ドリーム交通モノレール線 年表".
4. ^ 各駅の乗車人員　（2013年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
5. 運輸・通信・道路 [Transportation, Communications and Roads] (PDF) (in Japanese). Kanagawa Prefectural Government. p. 241. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
6. 各駅の乗車人員　（2000年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
7. 各駅の乗車人員　（2005年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
8. 各駅の乗車人員　（2010年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
9. 各駅の乗車人員　（2011年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
10. 各駅の乗車人員　（2012年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

External links

• JR East Ōfuna Station (in Japanese)
• Shonan Monorail Ōfuna Station (in Japanese)

• Tōkaidō Main Line
• Stations of East Japan Railway Company
• Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture
• Railway stations in Japan opened in 1888
• Yokosuka Line
• Negishi Line
• Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
• Shonan Monorail Enoshima Line
• Stations of Shonan Monorail