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Chūō-Rinkan Station (中央林間駅, -eki?) is a railway station of the Odakyu Electric Railway and Tokyu Corporation, in Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan.
Chuo-Rinkan station square and taxi stand
[edit] Station layout
[edit] Odakyū Enoshima Line
2 side platforms; 2 tracks; above-ground.
[edit] Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line
1-island platform; terminus station; underground.
Den-en-toshi line platform
[edit] Adjacent stations
[edit] Ticket gates
- Tokyu-Denentoshi Line - only ticket gate, leading to the east end of the station building. Turn right upon exiting to transfer to the Odakyu line.
- Odakyū Enoshima Line - central exit, leading to the west end of the station building. Turn left upon exiting to transfer to the Denentoshi line.
- Odakyū Enoshima Line - north exit. This is a small, unmanned ticket gate, from the north end of the west platform.
Station building small north exit
[edit] Station building exits
The station consists of two buildings, with a very small, covered, pedestrian street in the middle
- East exit leading to the station square.
- West exit
- Smaller north and south exits (the pedestrian street)
[edit] History
April 1, 1929 Odakyū Enoshima Line established; station opened as Chūō-Rinkantoshi (中央林間都市, Chūō-Rinkantoshi?).
October 15, 1941 Renamed to Chūō-Rinkan.
April 9, 1984 Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line extended to Chūō-Rinkan. Chūō-Rinkan is the end-station of the line.
[edit] Local area
[edit] Local transportation
- Taxis - there is a taxi stand on the square outside the east side of the station building (near the Denentoshi line ticket gate)
- Public buses - there are no public buses in Chūō-Rinkan.
- Other - the Sagami Country Club, a golf club, has a shuttle bus to the golf club, operating regularly from the Odakyū line north exit.
Inside the station building
[edit] Shopping
- Station building - bookstore on the 2nd floor. A pharmacy and several small restaurants on the 1st floor.
- Station East exit - there is a 7-eleven to the right on the station square. Across the square, also reachable by a crosswalk from the 2nd floor, is a Tokyu super-market and department store. Other stores and an internet cafe are nearby.
- Station West exit - The Chūō-Rinkan Nishi-guchi shopping area is up the stairs and to the right, but there are no significant stores.
- Odakyū North exit - There are a cafe, a Family Mart and MosBurger just outside the exit, and an Ozeki supermarket nearby to the left after MosBurger.
