is a passenger

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located in

Totsuka-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 273,418 and a density of 7,640 persons per km2. The total area was 35.70 km2. Geography Totsuka Ward is loc ...

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanag ...

, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Higashi-Totsuka Station is served by the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and the

Yokosuka Line The is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The Yokosuka Line connects Tokyo Station with in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. Officially, the name Yokosuka Line is assigned to the 23.9 km segment between an ...

. It is located 36.7 km from the terminus of the Yokosuka Line at

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. The station is located on the

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, but trains operating on the Tōkaidō Main Line do not stop at Higashi-Totsuka.

Station layout

The station consists of a single

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

with two tracks. The station buildings are built above the platforms. The station has a ''

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'' staffed ticket office. The Yokosuka line and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line share the same platforms. There are another two sets of tracks to the either side of the platform. One set is used for the through traffic of the Tōkaidō Main Line, and the other set is for non-stop freight trains.

Platforms

History

Higashi Totsuka Station opened as a station on the

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(JNR) on October 1, 1980, after local residents had petitioned the government for a railway station for over a half century. The opening coincided with the separation of the tracks for the Tōkaidō Main Line and Yokosuka Line into two separate sets of tracks from Yokohama through Ofuna Station.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 44,389 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

* Aurora Mall, in front of the train station, houses

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and Seibu stores. *Yokohama City Kawakami Kita Elementary School * Yokohama City Kawakami Elementary School * Yokohama City Shinano Elementary School

References

External links

* {{Tōkaidō Freight Line Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1980 Yokosuka Line Tōkaidō Main Line Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Railway stations in Yokohama