Station

Anzen

安善

Anzen
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Train service

Weekday departures: 177/day · Sat & holiday departures: 94/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:48 / 23:40

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (24)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Anzen Station opened on 10 March 1926 as Anzenmachi Station, a freight stop on the privately operated Tsurumi Rinkō Railway, named after Yasuda Zaibatsu founder Yasuda Zenjirō who had backed the railway. A separate passenger station, Anzendōri, opened nearby on 28 October 1930. The two were merged under the present name on 1 July 1943 when the Tsurumi Rinkō line was nationalised. The stop became unstaffed on 1 March 1971 and passed to JR East and JR Freight upon the 1987 privatisation of the Japanese National Railways. Since the removal of the Ōkawa branch platform at Musashi-Shiraishi in March 1996, Anzen has functioned as the operational divergence point between the Tsurumi Line main route and the Ōkawa branch.

Notes

The kanji for Anzen (安善) read identically to anzen (安全, "safety"), and the station's tickets were once bought in bulk by young Japanese travellers as good-luck charms.

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