Yoshikawaminami Station

Yoshikawaminami Station (吉川美南駅, Yoshikawaminami-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Yoshikawa, Saitama, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

[2] It is located 49.8 km (30.9 mi) from Fuchūhommachi Station and 78.6 km (48.8 mi) from the official starting point of the line at Tsurumi Station.

[3] On 27 January 2010, the new name for the station was formally chosen from three proposed names selected from 131 original proposals: Yoshikawa Namazu-no-sato, Yoshikawa-Minami, and Musashi-Yoshikawa.

[2] JR East forecast that the station would be used by an average of 23,000 passengers daily within five years of its opening.

[5] Media related to Yoshikawa-Minami Station at Wikimedia Commons

View of the station under construction, September 2011