Shioiri Station is served by the Keikyū Main Line and is located 49.2 kilometers from the northern terminus of the line at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo.
Station layout
The station consists of two opposed elevated side platforms with the station building underneath. Most of the station is built on an embankment, and the platforms abut a tunnel towards the Yokosuka-chūō side.
Platform screen doors were installed on 12 March 2022 and are scheduled to go into operation by April 2022.[1]
Shioiri Station was opened on April 1, 1930, as Yokosuka Gunkō Station (横須賀軍港駅) on the Shōnan Electric Railway, which merged with the Keihin Electric Railway on 1 November 1941. The station was renamed Yokosuka-Shioiri Station (横須賀汐留駅) on 1 October 1940, and to its present name on 1 September 1961.[2]
Keikyū introduced station numbering to its stations on 21 October 2010; Shioiri Station was assigned station number KK58.[3]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 18,162 passengers daily.[4]
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
^"京急汐入駅にホームドア設置" [Platform door installed at Keikyu Shioiri Station]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online. 15 March 2022. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
^汐入駅 / 路線図・各駅情報 [Shioiri Station / Route Map/Station Information]. Keihin Electric Express Railway (Keikyu) (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
^"京急線全駅にて駅ナンバリングを開始します" [Station numbering will be introduced to all stations on the Keikyu Line]. KEIKYU WEB. 25 June 2010. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
