SS12 Kami-Igusa Station 上井草駅 | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location |
Suginami,
Tokyo Japan | ||||||||||
Operated by | Seibu Railway | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Seibu Shinjuku Line | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | SS12 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 16 April 1927 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2013 | 20,030 daily | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Kami-Igusa Station (上井草駅, Kami-Igusa-eki) is a railway station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway.
Kami-Igusa Station is served by the 47.5 km Seibu Shinjuku Line from Seibu-Shinjuku in Tokyo to Hon-Kawagoe in Saitama Prefecture.
The station consists of two ground-level side platforms serving two tracks.
1 | Seibu Shinjuku Line | for Tanashi, Tokorozawa, Haijima, and Hon-Kawagoe |
2 | Seibu Shinjuku Line | for Takadanobaba and Seibu-Shinjuku |
Kami-Igusa Station opened on 16 April 1927. [1] Station numbering was introduced on all Seibu Railway lines during fiscal 2012, with Kami-Igusa Station becoming "SS12". [2]
On 23 March 2008, a bronze statue of the RX-78-2 Gundam was erected at the south entrance of the station to honor the animation studio Sunrise, which is located in Suginami. [3] In addition, the station started using a keyboard rendition of the Mobile Suit Gundam theme song as its train melody. [4] [5]
In fiscal 2013, the station was the 51st busiest on the Seibu network with an average of 20,030 passengers daily. [6] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
Fiscal year | Daily average |
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2009 | 20,694 [7] |
2010 | 19,944 [7] |
2011 | 19,740 [8] |
2012 | 19,707 [6] |
2013 | 20,030 [6] |