Kenritsudaigaku Station

Kenritsudaigaku Station (県立大学駅) is a passenger railway station located in the Yasuura neighborhood of the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keikyū.

Lines
Kenritsudaigaku Station is served by the Keikyū Main Line and is located 51.1 kilometers from the northern terminus of the line at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo.

Station layout
The station consists of an elevated single island platform, with the station building underneath. The platform is only long enough to handle six-car trains.

History
Kenritsudaigaku Station was opened on April 1, 1930 as Yokosuka-kōgō Station (横須賀公郷駅) on the Shōnan Electric Railway. The Shōnan Electric Railway merged with the Keihin Electric Railway on November 1, 1941 and became the Keihin Electric Express Railway from June 1, 1948. The station was renamed Keihin Yasuura Station (京浜安浦駅) on November 1, 1961, and Keikyū Yasuura Station (京急安浦駅) on June 1, 1987. It assumed its present name from February 1, 2004. The station building was rebuilt in April 2005.

Keikyū introduced station numbering to its stations on 21 October 2010; Kenritsudaigaku Station was assigned station number KK60.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 12,350 passengers daily.

The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

 * Yokosuka City Otsu Elementary School
 * Yokosuka City Otsu Junior High School
 * Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka Otsu High School
 * Kanagawa University of Human Services