Koji Inoue’s “Hints for Railway Travel”] Why do stations with the same name of the same railroad company go outside? Stations that go outside for transfers and stations that go through intermediate gates

Although there are occasional exceptions, the basic rule at stations where lines of different railroad companies are connected is that passengers must exit the station outside the ticket gates and then re-enter the station. However, there are some cases in which passengers must exit the station and re-enter the station to change trains, even though the stations are operated by the same railway company.

Exit the turnstiles and change trains even though they are the same operator.

JR East Japan, Hamakawasaki Station on the Nambu Line and Tsurumi Line are physically separate stations, although they have the same name, and face each other across the street. This happened because of the nationalization of what were originally separate private railways. The station is now unmanned and has a Suica simple ticket gate, but with the unusual proviso, “Do not touch when transferring.

Amagasaki, Ishinomaki, and Umi also used to have such a structure. Amagasaki, Ishinomaki, and Umi, however, are the only examples in the JR Group.

The same type of stations on private railways are Oji Station on Kintetsu’s Ikoma Line and Shin-Oji Station on the Tahara Line. Although the names are different, they face each other across the station square, and passengers must exit once when changing trains. Like Hamakawasaki, this is also a remnant of the fact that the lines were originally operated by different companies.

The same is true for its opposite terminus station on the Tahara Main Line. Here, Nishitawaramoto Station on the Tahara Line and Tawaramoto Station on the Kashihara Line still face each other across the station square.

Transfers between these two combinations will take you out of the rachis, but the fares will still be combined.

There are several examples of subway stations. For example, stations were originally separate, but were connected to each other because of the construction of another line between them.

Note that in the case of the Tokyo Metro, the automatic ticket gate passageways at these stations are divided into “for exiting” and “for transferring,” so when transferring to another line, passengers must pass through the “for transferring” orange-colored enclosure.

In the past, the same system was used when transferring between Tenjin Station on the Fukuoka City Subway Airport Line and Tenjin-Minami Station on the Nanakuma Line. However, this system was eliminated with the extension of the Nanakuma Line to Hakata Station, which was completed in March 2023. The transfer station between the Airport Line and the Nanakuma Line was changed to Hakata Station, and passengers can come and go within the rachis.

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