Hiyoshi Station (Kanagawa)

Hiyoshi Station 日吉駅
Hiyoshi Station Keio University Exit
Location	2-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 223-0061 Japan
Coordinates	35°33′11″N 139°38′48″E / 35.553062°N 139.64678°E / 35.553062; 139.64678Coordinates: 35°33′11″N 139°38′48″E / 35.553062°N 139.64678°E / 35.553062; 139.64678
Operated by	Tokyu Corporation Yokohama City Transportation Bureau
Line(s)	Tōkyū Tōyoko Line Tokyu Meguro Line Green Line
Platforms	3 island platforms
History
Opened	February 14, 1926
Passengers
FY2019	163,949 (Tokyu); 84,908 (Green Line) daily
Location
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Hiyoshi Station (日吉駅, Hiyoshi-eki) is an interchange passenger railway station located in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, jointly managed by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation and the Yokohama Municipal Subway.

Lines[]

Hiyoshi Station is served by the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line and Tōkyū Meguro Line. It is 13.6 kilometers from the terminus of the Tōyoko Line at Shibuya Station, and 11.9 kilometers from the terminus of the Meguro Line at Meguro Station. It is also served by the underground Green Line.

Station layout[]

The station is an elevated structure with two island platforms serving four tracks above ground. The station building is also connected to the Tokyu Store, a large upscale supermarket, and the reformed Tokyu Department Store on the second floor, which features many individually branded shops as well as a major consumer electronic shop (Yamada Denki) as a tenant occupying most of the third floor. The Yokohama Subway consists of a single island platform underground.

Tokyu platforms[]

Tokyu platforms, April 2008

1	■ Tokyu Toyoko Line	for Kikuna, Yokohama, Minatomirai, and Motomachi-Chūkagai
2	■ Tokyu Meguro Line	Terminating services only
3	■ Tokyu Meguro Line	for Musashi-Kosugi, Ōokayama, and Meguro Tokyo Metro Namboku Line for Akabane-Iwabuchi Saitama Rapid Railway Line for Urawa-Misono Toei Mita Line for Nishi-Takashimadaira
4	■ Tokyu Toyoko Line	for Musashi-Kosugi, Jiyūgaoka, and Shibuya, Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for Kotake-Mukaihara and Wakōshi

Yokohama Subway platforms[]

Adjacent stations[]

History[]

Hiyoshi Station opened as one of the original Tōyoko Line stations on February 14, 1926. The station was completely rebuilt in 1991 with half-submerged tracks and an elevated station building constructed above the tracks. The adjacent Tokyu Department store opened in 1995. The Yokohama Subway Green Line connected to Hiyoshi Station on March 30, 2008.<<cn|date=August 2012}}

Future plans[]

The Kanagawa Eastern Line is an approximately 10 km link, which is constructed from Nishiya via Hazawa Yokohama-Kokudai and Shin-Yokohama to Hiyoshi, that will enable through services between the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line, the Tōkyū Meguro Line and the Sōtetsu Main Line by late 2022.

Passenger statistics[]

In fiscal 2019, the Tokyu station was used by an average of 206,301 passengers daily.^[1] During the same period, the Yokohama Municipal Subway was used by an average of 84,908 passengers daily,^[2]

The daily average passenger figures for previous years (boarding passengers only) are as shown below.

Surrounding area[]

• Keio University Hiyoshi Campus
• Keio University Yagami Campus (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
• Keio Senior High School
• Nihon University High School / Junior High School
• Tokyo College of Photography

See also[]

• List of railway stations in Japan

References[]

External links[]

Media related to Hiyoshi Station (Kanagawa) at Wikimedia Commons

• Tokyu station information (in Japanese)
• Yokohama Subway station information (in Japanese)