Chitose-Funabashi Station
railway station in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Chitose-Funabashi Station (千歳船橋駅, Chitose-Funabashi-eki) is a passenger train station on the Odakyu Odawara Line in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway company Odakyu Electric Railway.
Station layout
The elevated station features four tracks and two side platforms. Express trains typically bypass the station on the two innermost tracks while local and semi-express trains stop at the station on the two outermost tracks, which serve platforms 1 and 2.
Before tracks were quadrupled and elevated on this section of the Odawara Line in 2004, the station was located as street level and featured two tracks and two side platforms.
Platforms
History
Chitose-Funabashi Station opened on April 1, 1927.
Station numbering was introduced in 2014 with Chitose-Funabashi being assigned station number OH11.
The public source identifies “Chitose-Funabashi Station” as railway station in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chitose-Funabashi, Station and railway.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chitose-Funabashi Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.