Kanagawa Station, railway station in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kanagawa Station is an above-ground railway station in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan, with two tracks running side by side and platforms on opposite sides. The station building sits at street level beneath the elevated tracks and belongs to the Keikyu Main Line.
The station opened in 1905 under the name Aokibashi Station and was temporarily closed in the late 1920s before reopening with its current name. In the following decades it was gradually modernized, with a major renovation carried out in the 1990s.
The name Kanagawa predates the modern city of Yokohama and refers to an old post town that once stood nearby along the old Tokaido road. Travelers passing through this area today still cross the same general corridor that connected Edo to the rest of the country.
One platform serves trains heading toward Yokohama and coastal towns such as Zushi, while the other connects to Tokyo and Haneda Airport. Signs are available in Japanese and English, making it straightforward to find the right direction.
The brief closure in the late 1920s makes this one of the few stations on the Keikyu line to have been shut down and then reopened under a different name. That change of name also means the station has two separate identities in local transport history.
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