Musashi-Sakai Station

Musashi-Sakai 武蔵境
North gate of Musashi-Sakai Station, May 2016
Location	Musashino, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Seibu Railway
Line(s)	■ Chūō Main Line Seibu Tamagawa Line
Location
Musashi-Sakai Location within Japan

Musashi-Sakai 武蔵境
JR East station
South gate of Musashi-Sakai Station, April 2012
Location	1-1-2 Sakai, Musashino-shi, Tokyo (東京都武蔵野市境一丁目1-2) Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	■ Chūō Main Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
History
Opened	1889
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2014)	65,384

Musashi-Sakai 武蔵境
Seibu station
South gate of Musashi-Sakai Station, April 2012
Location	2-1-12 Sakaiminami, Musashino-shi, Tokyo (東京都武蔵野市境南町二丁目1-12 ) Japan
Operated by	Seibu Railway
Line(s)	Seibu Tamagawa Line
Platforms	1 island
Other information
Station code	SW01
History
Opened	1917
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2014)	29,303

Musashi-Sakai Station (武蔵境駅, Musashi-sakai-eki^?) is a railway station in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Seibu Railway.

Musashi-Sakai Station is served by the JR East Chūō Main Line, and is also the northern terminus of the short Seibu Tamagawa Line. It is not a major transfer station, and only local (all-stations) trains on the Chūō Line stop at Musashi-sakai.

JR Musashi-Sakai Station has two elevated opposed side platforms serving two tracks, with the station building located underneath. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

The Seibu station has a single elevated dead-headed island platform serving two tracks, with the station building located underneath.

The JR station opened on 11 April 1889 as Sakai Station (境駅^?). The Tamagawa Line began operations on 22 October 1917. The station was renamed to its present name on 1 July 1919. The current station building was completed in 2008.

The area around Musashi-sakai has the standard commercial activity common to suburban Tokyo train stations, with a branches of the Ito Yokado department store, JR-owned Hotel Mets, and the Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, as well as a shopping street with many restaurants and small shops on the north side. The station has the standard taxi rank and bus stops, servicing bus routes between there and Hibarigaoka Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line to the north and Chōfu Station on the Keiō Line to the south.