Hon-Kawagoe Station

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Hon-Kawagoe Station 本川越駅
Platforms
Location
Prefecture	Saitama (See other stations in Saitama)
City	Kawagoe
History
Year opened	1895
Former name	Kawagoe Station
Year renamed to the present name	1940
Rail services
Operator(s)	Seibu Railway
Line(s)	Shinjuku

Hon-Kawagoe Station (本川越駅, Honkawagoe-eki^?) is a Seibu Railway station located in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan. The station is the terminal of the Seibu Shinjuku Line, which links Tokyo and Kawagoe. This is one of three main stations of the city; the other two are Kawagoe Station and Kawagoeshi Station.

The station is approximately 10 minutes' walk from Kawagoeshi Station (Tōbu Tōjō Main Line), and 15 minutes' walk from Kawagoe Station (JR Kawagoe Line and Tōbu Tōjō Main Line).

[edit] History

The station was opened as Kawagoe Station on the Kawagoe Railway on March 21, 1895. The station name was changed to the present name on July 22, 1940 following the opening of Kawagoe Station on the Kawagoe Line of Japanese Government Railways.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Seibu Railway Kaisha Yōran (2007), p. 114 (Japanese).

[edit] External links

(Japanese) Illustration of station facilities (Seibu Railway)

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Stations of the Seibu Shinjuku Line

Seibu-Shinjuku – Takadanobaba – Shimo-Ochiai – Nakai – Araiyakushi-mae – Numabukuro – Nogata – Toritsu-Kasei – Saginomiya – Shimo-Igusa – Iogi – Kami-Igusa – Kami-Shakujii – Musashi-Seki – Higashi-Fushimi – Seibu-Yagisawa – Tanashi – Hana-Koganei – Kodaira – Kumegawa – Higashi-Murayama – Tokorozawa – Kōkūkōen – Shin-Tokorozawa – Iriso – Sayamashi – Shin-Sayama – Minami-Ōtsuka – Hon-Kawagoe