Hon-Atsugi Station
railway station in Atsugi, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Hon-Atsugi Station (本厚木駅, Hon-Atsugi-eki) is a major passenger railway station located in the city of Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway.
Lines
Hon-Atsugi Station is served by the Odakyu Odawara Line and is 45.5 km (28.3 mi) from the line's terminal at Shinjuku Station. Most local, section semi-express, and semi-express trains inbound from Shinjuku Station terminate at this stop and head back to Shinjuku. West of this station, most express trains stop at every station until the line terminus in Odawara Station. All rapid express and most limited express (Romancecar) services also stop here.
Station layout
The station is an elevated structure built into the building used by the Mylord shopping mall (one of four such shopping malls owned by the Odakyu Group). One of the station's exits leads directly into the 4th level of the shopping mall. The station has two island platforms serving four tracks.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 1 April 1927 as Sagami-Atsugi Station (相模厚木駅) for through trains. At that time, trains stopping at every station ran between Shinjuku station and Inada-Noborito Station (稲田登戸駅), now Mukōgaoka-Yūen) and did not continue to Hon-Atsugi.
“Hon-Atsugi Station” enters the record as railway station in Atsugi, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hon-Atsugi, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4499730. Authority coordinates are 35.439, 139.364. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927.
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