Seijōgakuen-Mae Station

Seijogakuen-mae 成城学園前
West Entrance of Seijōgakuen-mae Station
General information
Location	Setagaya, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	Odakyu Electric Railway
Line(s)	Odakyu Odawara Line
Distance	11.6 km from Shinjuku
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
History
Opened	1 April 1927
Passengers
88,692 (2019)
Services
Preceding station Odakyu Following station Shin-Yurigaoka towards Hakone-Yumoto, Gotemba or Katase-Enoshima Romancecar Shinjuku Terminus Omotesandō C04 towards Kita-Senju Mukogaoka-Yuen towards Karakida Odawara Line Commuter Express Shimo-Kitazawa towards Shinjuku Noborito towards Odawara Odawara Line Express Kyodo towards Shinjuku or Yoyogi-Uehara Noborito towards Hon-Atsugi Odawara Line Commuter Semi Express Kyodo towards Yoyogi-Uehara Komae towards Isehara Odawara Line Semi Express Soshigaya-Okura towards Yoyogi-Uehara Kitami towards Odawara Odawara Line Local Soshigaya-Okura towards Shinjuku or Yoyogi-Uehara
Location
Seijogakuen-mae Location within Japan

Seijogakuen-mae Station (成城学園前駅, Seijōgakuen-mae-eki) is a railway station on the Odakyu Odawara Line in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway. The station is named after the nearby Seijo University.

Lines

Seijogakuen-mae Station is served by the Odakyu Odawara Line, and lies 11.6 km from Shinjuku Station.

Layout

The station has two island platforms serving four tracks. They are in the basement level.

Platforms

The entrances (North, South and West gates), ticket machines, ticket gates and the station office are on the ground level.

The commercial facilities (Seijo Corty) also start on ground level. Level one and two consist of a supermarket and various shops, level three of community services such as a nursery, cookery and language schools and a gym, and restaurants and an outdoor balcony on level four.

History

Seijogakuen-mae Station opened on 1 April 1927.

Between 1996 and 2004 it was extensively redeveloped and partially moved underground as part of the Odakyu Line's track doubling project.

September 2006 saw the opening of Seijo Corty, a four-storey commercial building.^{[citation needed]}

Station numbering was introduced in January 2014 with Seijogakuen-mae being assigned station number OH14.^[1][2]

Surrounding area

A neighbourhood shopping district surrounds the station, especially outside the North Exit. The film production studios and sound stages of Toho Corporation are located alongside the Senkawa, a tributary of the Tama River that flows South from main station area.

The Sophia Soshigaya International House|Soshigaya Ryugakusei Kaikan (祖師谷留学生会館), a large residential facility for foreign students, is about 15 minutes walk north of the station.^{[citation needed]}

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Seijōgakuen-Mae Station.

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

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This page was last edited on 4 February 2023, at 19:47