Kyōdō Station
railway station in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Kyōdō Station (経堂駅, Kyōdō-eki) is an elevated railway station on the Odakyu Odawara Line in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway company Odakyu Electric Railway.
Lines
Kyōdō Station is served by the Odakyu Odawara Line from Shinjuku in Tokyo and also by Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line inter-running services which connect to Ayase. Located between Gōtokuji and Chitose-Funabashi, it is 8.0 km (5.0 mi) from the Shinjuku terminus.
The station has two island platforms serving four tracks, with an additional centre track for non-stop trains which bypass the station.
Platforms
History
Kyōdō Station opened on 1 April 1927. The station was rebuilt as an elevated structure on 11 June 2000.
Station numbering was introduced in 2014 with Kyōdō being assigned station number OH11.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2011, the station was used by an average of 69,299 passengers daily. In fiscal 2015 the daily passenger numbers increased to 74,691. The average number of passengers had increased to 82,540 by 2021.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kyōdō Station” as railway station in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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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 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4251372. Authority coordinates are 35.651, 139.637. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927, 2000, 2014 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kyōdō 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.