Sobudai-mae Station
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is a railway station
in the city of Zama
, Kanagawa Prefecture
, Japan
, served by the Odawara Line of the Odakyū Electric Railway
.
The station is 36.9 rail kilometers from the Odawara Line’s terminal
at Shinjuku Station
. It is the closest station to the US Army's Camp Zama
facility and is close to the border of Zama with Sagamihara
.
movement of eliminating the names of military facilities from maps, the station was again renamed to its current name on January 1, 1941. The station building was reconstructed as an elevated station in 1971.
s and four tracks, connected to the station building by overpass
es. The station building is elevated, and is located above the tracks and platforms.
Train station
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in the city of Zama
Zama, Kanagawa
is a city located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The city is also home to the United States' Camp Zama Army base. As of 128,989, the city had an estimated population of 128,989 and a density of 7,320 persons per km². The total area was 17.58 km²....
, 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
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, served by the Odawara Line of the Odakyū 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....
.
The station is 36.9 rail kilometers from the Odawara Line’s terminal
Terminal Station
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at 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 the closest station to the US Army's Camp Zama
Camp Zama
is a United States Army post located in the cities of Zama and Sagamihara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, about southwest of Tokyo.Camp Zama is home to the U.S. Army Japan /I Corps , the U.S. Army Japan Aviation Detachment "Ninjas" , the 500th Military Intelligence Brigade, the Japan Engineer...
facility and is close to the border of Zama with Sagamihara
Sagamihara, Kanagawa
is a city located in north central Kanagawa Prefecture, bordering Tokyo, Japan. It is the third most populous city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki, and the fifth most populous suburb of Greater Tokyo. Its northern neighbor is Machida, with which a cross-prefectural merger has been...
.
Station history
Sōbudai-mae Station began operations on March 1, 1927 as Zama Station. With the opening of the nearby Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Rikugun Shikan Gakkō), the station was renamed on June 1, 1937. However, amid the counter-intelligenceCounter-intelligence
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movement of eliminating the names of military facilities from maps, the station was again renamed to its current name on January 1, 1941. The station building was reconstructed as an elevated station in 1971.
Building
Sōbudai-mae Station has two island platformIsland platform
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s and four tracks, connected to the station building by overpass
Overpass
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es. The station building is elevated, and is located above the tracks and platforms.