Isogo Station


Isogo Station is a railway station on the Negishi Line in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Lines

Isogo Station is served by the Negishi Line, with through-running to and from the Keihin-Tohoku Line extending to in Saitama Prefecture. The station is located 11.1 km from the terminus of the Negishi Line at Yokohama Station and 70.2 km from the northern terminus of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line at Ōmiya Station.

Station layout

Isogo Station is located at surface level and features a single island platform with a two tracks. Both tracks are utilised by the Keihin-Tohoku Line and Yokohama Line; track 1 serves southbound trains to whilst track 2 serves northbound trains to and. An adjacent side platform formerly used to support freight operations, was sold to the Nisshin OilliO Group.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Isogo Station opened on May 9, 1964 as the terminus of the Negishi Line until the line was extended to in 1970. All freight operations were suspended from October 1986. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways in 1987. The station building was extensively remodelled in 2000 with the addition of ticket gates, automatic ticket machines, and new ticket windows.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2007, the station was used by 19,047 passengers daily.