Hodogaya Station (保土ケ谷駅) is a ground-level station with a concourse in Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama. East Japan Railway Company runs it on the Yokosuka Line and the Shōnan–Shinjuku Line. It opened on 11 July 1887.
History
Hodogaya Station (保土ケ谷駅) opened on 11 July 1887 as Hodogaya Station (程ヶ谷駅) on the national Tokaido Line, when the line between the first Yokohama Station and Kozu opened. It carried passengers only. In 1894 the army asked for a line that would shortcut between here and Kanagawa Station, and it was built. From 1 April 1898 freight was handled. On 1 August 1898 the shortcut became the main line, and the line to the first Yokohama Station became a branch. On 15 August 1915 Yokohama Station moved to its second site. The first station was renamed Sakuragicho, and the line between Sakuragicho and here was abolished.
On 30 December 1915 a freight line to Takashima Station opened. In 1917 the west station building was rebuilt. On 13 December 1925 the Tokaido Line through here was electrified. On 31 March 1928 a double-track freight line opened between here and Ofuna, and the section west of here became four tracks. On 15 October 1928 the third Yokohama Station opened. The line through the second Yokohama Station was abolished, and the earlier shortcut was used again. On 14 February 1929 a connecting line to Nishi-Yokohama on the Shinchu Railway opened. On 21 August 1929 a freight line along the main line from Tsurumi to here opened. On 16 September 1929 the Takashima freight line closed.
On 15 March 1930 the Yokosuka Line was electrified, and all Tokaido Line trains began passing through this station. On 1 October 1931 the station was renamed Hodogaya Station. In March 1938 the east station building opened. On 13 September 1948 the Sagami Railway freight line opened between here and Nishi-Yokohama.
On 1 October 1979 the Tokaido freight line opened, and freight handling moved to the new Yokohama Hazawa Station. On 1 October 1980 the platforms moved off the Tokaido Line and onto the present Yokosuka Line track, when the two lines were separated. The current station building came into use on 1 February 1981. On 6 October 1982 the Sagami Railway freight line was abolished. Freight that had gone to Sagami-Otsuka and Atsugi stations on that line was rerouted through Chigasaki and the Sagami Line. On 1 February 1984 luggage handling ended. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East.
On 1 May 1991 the station building Urban opened. On 25 May 1993 automatic ticket gates came into use. Suica could be used from 18 November 2001. An elevator between the gates and the platforms and a reserved-seat ticket machine were added in 2007. A down escalator was added beside the up escalator, and a waiting room was added on the platform in 2008. On 15 September 2021 the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed. On 1 October 2021 the station was contracted out.
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