Sakado Station (Saitama)

Sakado Station
坂戸駅

The north entrance in November 2011
Location 1-1 Hinode-chō, Sakado-shi, Saitama-ken 350-0225
Japan
Operated by Tobu Railway
Line(s)
Distance 40.6 km from Ikebukuro
Platforms 2 island platforms
Tracks 4
Connections Bus stop
Other information
Station code TJ-26     
Website www.tobu.co.jp/station/info/7404.html
History
Opened 27 October 1916 (1916-10-27)
Rebuilt 2011
Previous names Sakado-machi (until 1976)
Traffic
Passengers (FY2014) 27,755 daily
Location
Sakado Station
Location within Japan

Sakado Station (坂戸駅 Sakado-eki) is a railway station on the Tobu Tojo Line in Sakado, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway.[1]

Lines

Sakado Station is served by the Tobu Tojo Line from Ikebukuro in Tokyo. Located between Wakaba and Kita-Sakado, it is 40.6 km from the Ikebukuro terminus.[2] It also forms the starting point of the Tobu Ogose Line branchline to Ogose.

Services

All services, (TJ Liner, Rapid Express, Rapid, Express, Semi express, Local) stop at this station. During the daytime, the station is served by eight trains per hour in each direction on the Tojo Line, and by four trains per hour to Ogose on the Ogose Line.[3]

Station layout

The south entrance with escalators and lift, January 2012
The elevated station concourse, April 2011

The station consists of two sets of island platforms numbered from south to north. From 2010, a new elevated station building provided a central set of ticket gates, replacing the previous exits on the north and south sides.

This station has a season ticket sales office.[3]

A siding on the north side of the station is used for storing track maintenance machines. A stabling track for Ogose Line trains lies to the east of the station, next to the permanent way depot.[4] This was created in 2008.

Platforms

1/2 ■ Tobu Ogose Line for Ogose
3 ■ Tobu Tojo Line for Shinrinkōen, Ogawamachi, and Yorii
4 ■ Tobu Tojo Line for Kawagoe, Wakōshi, and Ikebukuro
Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line for Shin-Kiba
Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for Shibuya
Tokyu Toyoko Line for Yokohama
Minatomirai Line for Motomachi-Chukagai

The Ogose Line platforms (1 and 2) are 4 cars long, and the Tojo Line platforms (3 and 4) are 10 cars long.

View of the station building and Ogose Line platforms 1/2, from platforms 3/4, April 2011

Adjacent stations

«Service»
Tobu Tojo Line
Kawagoeshi (evening down services)
Kawagoe (morning up services)		   TJ Liner   Higashi-Matsuyama
Kawagoeshi   Rapid Express   Higashi-Matsuyama
Wakaba   Rapid   Higashi-Matsuyama
Wakaba   Express   Kita-Sakado
Wakaba   Semi express   Kita-Sakado
Wakaba   Local   Kita-Sakado
Tobu Ogose Line
Terminus   Local   Ippommatsu

History

The station first opened on 27 October 1916, named Sakado-machi Station (坂戸町駅), coinciding with the extension of the Tojo Railway from Kawagoe. At the time of opening, the journey time from Ikebukuro was approximately 1 hour 40 minutes (compared to 45 minutes by express in 2008).[5] The Ogose Line was opened from Sakado Station on 17 February 1932, initially as a freight line as far as Morido (森戸). The Ogose Line was extended from Morido to Ogose on 16 December 1934, from which date passenger service commenced.[2]

From the 1920s, a track continued due westward to the Komagawa River for transporting gravel. This operated until the 1960s. The track maintenance storage track stub to the west of the station, between the Tojo Line and Ogose Line tracks is the truncated remainder of this former line.[6]

The station was renamed Sakado on 1 September 1976 when Sakado became a city.[5] In 1986, the locomotive depot at the east end of the station was closed, although the sheds remain to this day, used as a track maintenance depot.

Mirrors and platform edge sensors were added to the Ogose Line platforms in 2008 ahead of the start of driver-only operation from June 2008.

Work started in 2009 to rebuild the station with an elevated concourse providing a link between the north and south sides of the station. Rebuilding was completed in April 2011.

From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on the Tobu Tojo Line, with Sakado Station becoming "TJ-26".[7]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 27,755 passengers daily.[8] Passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year Daily average
1950 2,485[9]
1960 4,825[9]
1970 8,440[9]
1980 11,909[9]
1990 15,552[9]
2000 25,374[9]
2010 26,775[10]
2011 26,409[11]
2012 27,225[12]
2013 27,921[13]
2014 27,755[8]

Surrounding area

Nishi-iruma Police Station, August 2013

Education

Hotels

Bus services

The north side of the station is served by the "Sakacchi Bus" (Ōya Line) and "Sakacchi Wagon" (Nissai Line) community minibus services operated by the city of Sakado.[14] The south side is served by the "Sakacchi Bus" (Tsurumai Line) and "Sakacchi Wagon" (Shigaichi Line) community minibus services.[14]

The following long-distance express bus services operate from the south side of the station.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sakado Station information" (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  2. 1 2 Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 224. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.
  3. 1 2 Tobu Tojo Line Timetable, published March 2016
  4. ↑ Kawashima, Ryozo (February 2011). 日本の鉄道　中部ライン　全線・全駅・全配線　第１１巻　埼玉南部・東京多摩北部 [Railways of Japan - Chubu Line - Lines/Stations/Track plans - Vol 11 Southern Saitama and Northern Tama Tokyo]. Japan: Kodansha. pp. 64–68. ISBN 978-4-06-270071-9.
  5. 1 2 Yamamoto, Tomoyuki (October 2008). 東武東上線の神話時代（１）. Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 48 no. 570. pp. 126–131.
  6. ↑ Kuma, H. (March 2008). 坂戸の砂利線 [　Sakado Gravel Line]. Rail & Bikes (in Japanese). Japan. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  7. ↑ 「東武スカイツリーライン」誕生！ あわせて駅ナンバリングを導入し、よりわかりやすくご案内します [Tobu Sky Tree Line created! Station numbering to be introduced at same time] (pdf). Tobu News (in Japanese). Tobu Railway. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  8. 1 2 駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information (Passenger statistics)] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sawauchi, Kazuaki (October 2013). 東武鉄道東上線の歴史過程 [History of the Tobu Tojo Line]. The Railway Pictorial (in Japanese) (Japan: Denkisha Kenkyūkai) 63 (880): 18.
  10. ↑ 駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  11. ↑ 駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2012. Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  12. ↑ 駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2013. Archived from the original on 25 April 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  13. ↑ 駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2014. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  14. 1 2 さかっちバス・さかっちワゴン時刻表 [Sakacchi Bus & Sakacchi Wagon Timetable] (pdf) (in Japanese). Japan: City of Sakado. 1 November 2013. p. 2. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  15. ↑ 坂戸駅南口・川越駅西口－成田空港　直行バス [Sakado/Kawagoe - Narita Airport Direct Bus]. Tobu Bus Online (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Bus Co., Ltd. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  16. ↑ 籠原駅・熊谷・森林公園駅・坂戸駅⇔羽田空港 [Kagohara/Kumagaya/Shinrinkoen/Sakado - Haneda Airport]. Airport Limousine (in Japanese). Japan: Airport Transport Service Co., Ltd. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  17. ↑ 大阪・京都←→川越・坂戸・熊谷（ウイングライナー） [Osaka/Kyoto - Kawagoe/Sakado/Kumagaya] (in Japanese). Japan: Kintetsu Bus Co., Ltd. Retrieved 18 May 2012.

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