Musashi-Nakahara Station (武蔵中原駅) is a passenger railway station located in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Musashi-Nakahara Station is served by the Nambu Line. The station is 9.2 km from the southern terminus of the line at Kawasaki Station.

Station layout

The station is staffed and consists of two island platforms serving four tracks. Platforms 2 and 3 are used for trains starting from Musashi-Nakahara, as their tracks in the opposite direction lead to Nakahara Depot. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office an automatic ticket gates.

Platforms

History

Musashi-Nakahara Station opened as a station on the Nambu Railway on 9 March 1927. The Nambu Railway was nationalized on 1 April 1944, becoming part of the Japanese Government Railway (JGR) system, which became the Japanese National Railways (JNR) from 1946. Freight operations were discontinued from January 16, 1961. Along with privatization and division of JNR, JR East started operating the station on 1 April 1987. The station was rebuilt in 1990, with the platforms being elevated and moved 200 meters towards Musashi-Kosugi Station.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 34,198 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area