Kamonomiya Station (Kanagawa)

Kamonomiya Station (鴨宮駅, Kamonomiya-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

JT15 Kamonomiya Station 鴨宮駅
Exit of Kamonomiya Station
General information
Location	30 Kamonomiya, Odawara-shi, Kanagawa-ken 250-0874 Japan
Coordinates	35°16′33″N 139°10′49″E
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	■ Tōkaidō Main Line
Distance	80.8 km from Tokyo.
Platforms	1 island platform
Connections	Bus terminal
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	JT15
Website	Official website
History
Opened	June 1, 1923
Passengers
FY2019	12,432 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Odawara JT16 towards Atami Tōkaidō Line Kōzu JT14 towards Tokyo Odawara JT16 Terminus Shōnan–Shinjuku Line Rapid Kōzu JT14 towards Maebashi
Location Kamonomiya Station Location within Kanagawa Prefecture Show map of Kanagawa Prefecture Kamonomiya Station Kamonomiya Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Lines

Kamonomiya Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is located 80.8 kilometers from the line’s terminus at Tokyo Station. Some trains of the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line also stop at this station.

Station layout

Kamonomiya Station has a single island platform serving two tracks, with the station building is built on a cantilevered structure on top of the tracks and platform. The station is staffed.

Platforms

1	JT Tokaido Line (Ueno-Tokyo Line)	for Kōzu, Hiratsuka, Yokohama, Tokyo, Ueno, Ōmiya JU Utsunomiya Line for Utsunomiya and Kuroiso JU Takasaki Line for Takasaki and Maebashi
	JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line	for Yokohama, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Ōmiya and Takasaki (via JU Takasaki Line)
2	JT Tōkaidō Line	for Odawara, Atami, Numazu JT Itō Line for Itō

History

Kamonomiya Station was established as Sakawagawa signal box (酒匂川信号所, Sakawagawa shingōsho) on October 21, 1920, on the Atami Line of the Japan National Railways. It was upgraded to a full station on June 1, 1923 as a station for both freight and passenger service. With the opening of the Tanna Tunnel, the Atami Line became the Tōkaidō Main Line from December 1, 1934. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in 1970, and parcel services by 1972. The current station building was completed in 1976. With the completion of Quadruple tracks between Odawara and Ofuna, freight services were resumed as of March 31, 1987. With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company and the Japan Freight Railway Company. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC Card system came into operation from November 18, 2001.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 12,432 passengers daily.^[1]

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

Fiscal year	daily average
2005	12,122[2]
2010	12,593[3]
2015	12,851[4]

Surrounding area

Kamonomiya is located east of central Odawara, and is home to several of Odawara's main shopping areas including Dynacity, Odawara City Mall and Robinsons. The area around Kamonomiya also contains a number of restaurants, bowling alleys, Karaoke bars, and Odawara's only movie theatres: Toho Cinema (near Robinsons) and Korona World.

The Korona World complex also contains an Onsen hot-spring bath.