Atsugi Station
Atsugi Station is a joint-use passenger railway station located in the city of Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan. It is jointly operated by the private railway company Odakyu Electric Railway and by the East Japan Railway Company. Odakyu manages the station premises.
Lines
Atsugi Station is served by the Sagami Line and the Odakyu Odawara Line. The station is from the Odawara Line's terminal at Shinjuku Station and from the Sagami Line's terminus at Chigasaki Station.Station layout
The Odakyu portion of station consists of two opposed side platforms with two tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The JR portion of the station has a single side platform, serving one track.Station history
Atsugi Station was opened on 12 May 1926, as the terminus of Jinchū Railroad, now Sagami Railway). Despite being located in neighboring Ebina, the station was named “Atsugi” to fulfill a pledge by the railway management to build a railroad “to Atsugi”. The Sotetsu Railway linked to the station on 15 July 1926. On 1 April 1927, the Odakyu Electric Railway built the adjacent Kawaharaguchi Station. With the completion of Ebina Station on the Jinchū Railroad on 25 November 1941, operations to Atsugi were discontinued. Atsugi Station of newly nationalized Sagami Line and Kawaharaguchi Station were joined into the same station building on 1 June 1944. A new station building was opened on 31 July 1971.Station numbering was introduced in January 2014 with Atsugi being assigned station number OH33.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 6,863 passengers daily. During the same period, the Odakyu station was used by an average of 20,287 passengers daily.The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | daily average | daily average | |
| 2005 | 5,477 | 8,978 | |
| 2010 | 6,319 | 9,888 | |
| 2015 | 7,029 | 10,570 |