Hodogaya

Weekday departures: 111/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 39/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:35 / 23:27

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (10)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tokaido Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tokaido Main Line: Yokohama ⇄ Higashi-Totsuka

Hodogaya Station (JO 12 / JS 12) is on JR East's Tōkaidō Main Line (Yokosuka Line tracks and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line) in Iwai-chō, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama. It opened on 11 July 1887 as Hodogaya Station (then written 程ヶ谷) when the Tōkaidō Main Line was extended between the original Yokohama (today Sakuragichō) and Kōzu, with a Western-style station building on the west side. Through the Meiji and Taishō eras the station figured in the successive reroutings of the Tōkaidō Main Line that followed the Sino-Japanese War and the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake, and by 1929 freight lines laid alongside the main line through the station had completed the separation of freight from passenger traffic between Shinagawa and Hiratsuka. On 15 March 1930 Yokosuka Line services switched to electric multiple units and became the only trains calling at the station, and on 1 October 1931 it was renamed Hodogaya. The SM separation of 1 October 1980 moved the platforms off the Tōkaidō Main Line onto the dedicated Yokosuka Line tracks laid on the former freight line, and the current bridge-style station building entered service on 1 February 1981.

Several explanations of the name 'Hodogaya' are current. The two leading ones are the folklorist Yanagita Kunio's argument that it derives from hoto, an old word for the female genitalia, after a valley shaped like it, and the theory tracing the name to the ancient Hangaya Mikuriya estate that once stretched across today's Asahi and Hodogaya wards, 'hangaya' shifting over time to 'hodogaya'.