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 Isogo-ku

Isogo-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 163,406 and a density of 8,520 persons per km². The total area was 19.17 km².-Geography:...

, 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

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It is located 34.3 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

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

. Sugita Station is often used as a transfer point to the JR East

East Japan Railway Company

is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....

 via Shin-Sugita Station

Shin-Sugita Station

is an interchange railway station operated by JR East's Negishi Line located in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is 11.1 kilometers from the terminus of the Negishi Line at Yokohama Station and 70.2 kilometers from the terminus of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line at Ōmiya Station...

, a short walk away.

History

Sugita Station was opened on July 10, 1930 as a stop on the Shōnan Electric Railway, which merged with the Keihin ELectric Railway on November 1, 1941. It was elevated to a full station on May 1, 1931. A new elevated station building was erected in March 1970, and a completely new station building was completed in April 1993.

Station layout

Sugita Station is an elevated station with a dual opposed side platform

Side platform

A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

s serving two tracks.

Platforms

1	■Keikyū Main Line	・ ・
2	■Keikyū Main Line	・・ ・ ・ ・

Adjacent stations

External links

• Keikyū Sugita Station