Seijogakuen-mae Station (成城学園前駅; -eki) is a major stop on the Odakyu Electric Railway

Odakyu Electric Railway

, or OER, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan best known for its Romancecar series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone....

 Odawara Line in Setagaya, Tokyo

Setagaya, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo in Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood within the ward. The ward calls itself the City of Setagaya in English...

, Japan

Japan

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, 11.6km down the line from Shinjuku Station

Shinjuku Station

is a train station located in Shinjuku and Shibuya wards in Tokyo, Japan.Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central Tokyo and its western suburbs on inter-city rail, commuter rail and metro lines, the station was used by an average of 3.64 million people per day in 2007,...

. It is used by about 83,000 passengers a day. Express trains stop at the station, which means many more use the station to change to local service trains, and vice versa.

The station is named after the nearby Seijo University

Seijo University

Seijo University（成城大学）is a private university in Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Seijo University has its origins in ‘Seijo Gakuen（成城学園）’, which was founded in 1917, by Dr. Masataro Sawayanagi, a former Minister of Education...

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Layout

There are four platform faces, situated on two islands. They are in the basement level - the only Odakyu station to have underground platforms apart from the Shinjuku terminus.
(Local, Section Semi-Express)
(Semi-Express, Express, Tama Express, Rapid Express, Romance Car "Metro Sagami", Romance Car "Metro Homeway", Romance Car "Bay Resort")
(Semi-Express, Express, Tama Express, Rapid Express, Romance Car "Metro Sagami", Romance Car "Metro Homeway", Romance Car "Bay Resort")
(Local, Sectional Semi-Express)
The entrances (North, South and West gates), ticket machines, ticket gates and the station office are on the ground level.

The commercial facilities (Seijo Corty) also start on ground level. Level one and two consist of a supermarket and various shops, level three of community services such as a nursery, cookery and language schools and a gym, and a restaurant and an outdoor balcony on level four.

Adjacent stations

Surroundings

A neighbourhood shopping district surrounds the station, especially outside the North Exit.

There are some high-quality residential areas to the north of the station, home to several well-known personalities.

The Soshigaya Ryugakusei Kaikan (祖師谷留学生会館), a large residential facility for foreign students, is about 15 minutes walk north of the station.

History

Seijogakuen-mae Station was opened on April 1st, 1927.

Between 1996 and 2004 it was extensively redeveloped and partially
moved underground as part of the Odakyu Line's track doubling project.

September 2006 saw the opening of Seijo Corty, a four-story commercial building.