Ogose Station

Ogose Station 越生駅
The station entrance in March 2012
Location	Ogose, Ogose-machi, Iruma-gun, Saitama-ken 350-0416 Japan
Operated by	JR East Tobu Railway
Line(s)	■ Hachiko Line Tobu Ogose Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Other information
Station code	TJ-47 (Tobu)
History
Opened	15 April 1933
Location
Ogose Station Location within Japan

Ogose Station (越生駅, Ogose-eki^?) is a railway station in the town of Ogose, Saitama, Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Tobu Railway.

Ogose Station is served by the single-track Hachikō Line between Komagawa and Takasaki, and also forms the terminus of the 10.9 km Tobu Ogose Line single-track branch from Sakado. The station lies 8.5 km from the starting point of the Hachikō Line at Komagawa.

The station consists of two island platforms for Tobu and JR East respectively. The JR East platform serves only one track since the removal of the track on platform 1 in April 2013 to allow construction of a passenger lift. An additional storage track is located on the east side of the Tobu platform. The station has a JR Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

The toilets located on the north end of the Tobu platform were removed in 2013 when the platform was lengthened as part of the work to add lift access to the platforms.

Shared JR East and Tobu entrance, September 2011

View of the station from the south before the removal of the platform 1 track on the left, with the Tobu Ogose Line platforms on the right, April 2011

View of the JR East platforms looking south, with the former platform 1 on the right, and the Tobu platforms and former toilet block on the left, February 2012

View of the Tobu Ogose Line platforms 3 and 4, September 2011

The JR East station (formerly JNR) opened on 15 April 1933. The Tobu station opened on 16 December 1934.

From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on the Tobu Ogose Line, with Ogose Station becoming "TJ-47".