Kanazawa-Bunko Station
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is a railway station operated by the Keikyū
Keihin Electric Express Railway
, also known as or, more recently, , is a private railroad that connects inner Tokyo to Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and other points on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture. It also provides rail access to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. means the Tokyo - Yokohama area. The company's railway...

 Keikyū Main Line located in Kanazawa-ku
Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 209,565 and a density of 6,760 persons per km². The total area was 31.01 km². The ward symbol, established 1987, expresses the image of sea, waves, and a sea...

, Yokohama
Yokohama
is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

, Japan
Japan
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. It is located 39.5 rail kilometers from the northern terminus of the Keikyū Main Line at Shinagawa Station
Shinagawa Station
is the first major station south ofTokyo Station and is a major interchange for trains operated by JR East, JR Central, and Keikyu. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen and other trains to the Miura Peninsula, Izu Peninsula and the Tōkai region pass through here...

, in Tokyo
Tokyo
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. Bus services from the north exit are Yokohama City Bus, Daishinto Bus, and Yokohama Keikyu Bus.

History

Kanazawa-Bunko Station opened on April 1, 1930 as a station on the Shonan Electric Railway, which merged with the Keihin Electric Railway on November 1,1941. The station was rebuilt as an elevated station in 1980.

Station layout

Kanazawa Bunko Station has two island platform
Island platform
An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

s serving four tracks. The outside tracks 1 and 4 are used for local service; inside tracks 2 and 3 are used for express services.

Platforms

1 Keikyū Main Line ・ ・ ・
2 Keikyū Main Line ・ ・ ・
3 Keikyū Main Line ・ ・ ・
4 Keikyū Main Line ・ ・ ・

Adjacent stations

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