Kawawacho Station
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is metro station
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

 located in Tsuzuki Ward
Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 199,258 and a density of 7,130 persons per km²...

, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It is served by the Yokohama Municipal Subway
Yokohama Municipal Subway
is the metro network in the city of Yokohama, Japan, south of Tokyo In Kanagawa pref. It is operated by Yokohama City Transportation Bureau, and is operated as two lines, though 3 continuous lines exist.-Lines:Line 1 and 3 are operated as a single line...

’s Green Line
Green Line (Yokohama)
The is a line of the Yokohama Municipal Subway in the city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Its formal designation is Line 4, and it is the first part of a proposed...

 (Line 4) and is 1.7 kilometers from the terminus of the Green Line at Nakayama Station
Nakayama Station (Kanagawa)
is an interchange railway station located in Midori Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is served by the East Japan Railway Company's Yokohama Line, and is 13.5 kilometers from the terminus of the Yokohama Line at Higashi-Kanagawa Station, and is also the terminus of the Yokohama...

.

Station layout

Kawawachō Station is an above ground station with a single island platform
Island platform
An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

 serving four elevated tracks. The station building is located underneath the tracks and platform. The platform is numbered Platform 3 and Platform 4. There is no Platform 1 or Platform 2, and these tracks are used as a rail yard
Rail yard
A rail yard, or railroad yard, is a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives. Railroad yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock stored off the mainline, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic....

 for to removal of train carriages from the main rail lines of the Green Line.

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Adjacent stations

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