Bentembashi

Weekday departures: 259/day · Sat & holiday departures: 132/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:44 / 23:43

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (35)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Tsurumi Line: Asano ⇄ Tsurumiono

Bentembashi Station opened on 10 March 1926 as the freight-only terminus of the Tsurumi Rinkō Railway's Hamakawasaki–Bentembashi section. Passenger services began on 28 October 1930, when the line was extended to a temporary Tsurumi terminus. A freight branch to Tsurumi-Kawaguchi opened on 1 December 1935. With the nationalisation of the Tsurumi Rinkō Railway on 1 July 1943 the station became a Ministry of Railways Tsurumi Line stop; freight handling at Bentembashi ended that same day, with the freight branch transferred to start at Asano. The station became unstaffed and gained a ticket-vending machine on 1 March 1971, passed to JR East with the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987, gained Suica acceptance on 22 March 2002, and saw a new station building completed on 2 April 2018. The ticket-vending machine was withdrawn on 28 February 2022.

The station's name comes from a red bridge that used to span a nearby pond that enshrined Benten, the deity protecting local fishermen.