Chigasaki Station

Chigasaki Station (茅ヶ崎駅) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Chigasaki Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, and is located 56.8 kilometers from Tokyo. It is also the southern terminus of the 33.3 kilometer Sagami Line.

Station layout
Chigasaki Station has three island platforms with an elevated station building. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms
The song "Kibō no Wadachi" by the Southern All-Stars began to be used as the departure melody for platforms 5 and 6 from 1 October 2014.

History
Chigasaki Station was opened on June 15, 1898, for both passenger and freight service as part of the section of the Japan National Railway (JNR) Tōkaidō Main Line connecting Yokohama with Kōzu. The adjacent Sagami Line station (then operated by the Sagami Railway opened on September 28, 1921. It was nationalized on June 1, 1944, becoming part of the Japan National Railways. Scheduled freight services were discontinued from 1984, and small parcel services from 1985. With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of the East Japan Railway Company. The north exit bus terminal was greatly expanded in 1996 and 1998. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC Card system came into operation on November 18, 2001. The station building was reconstructed in 2006 to include a multi-story department store.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 55,778 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

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

Surrounding area

 * Chigasaki City Hall
 * Chigasaki Municipal Hospital
 * Chigasaki Citizens' Cultural Centerl
 * Kanagawa Prefectural Chigasaki High School
 * Kanagawa Prefectural Tsurumine High School
 * Chigasaki Tokushukai Hospital
 * Chigasaki City Library
 * Chigasaki City Museum of Art