is a junction

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located in the city of

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

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operator Jōshin Dentetsu. It is also a freight depot for the

Japan Freight Railway Company , or , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide throughout Japan. Its headquarters are in Shibuya, Tokyo near Shinjuku Station. The Japan Railways Group was fou ...

(JR Freight).

Lines

Takasaki Station is served by the Jōetsu and

Hokuriku Shinkansen The is a high-speed Shinkansen railway line jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West), connecting Tokyo with in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The first section, between and in Nagano Pr ...

lines and is 74.7 km from and 105.0 kilometers from . It is also served by the

Hachikō Line The Hachikō Line is a 92.0 km (57.2 mi) regional railway line owned and operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is located within Tokyo, Saitama, and Gunma Prefectures in Japan. It connects Hachiōji Station in Hachi ...

and the

Takasaki Line The Takasaki Line ( ja, 高崎線, ) is a Japanese railway line which connects Ōmiya Station in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture and Takasaki Station in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) ...

with through services to and from the

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and

Ryōmō Line The is a Japanese railway line connecting Oyama in Tochigi Prefecture with Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture. long, the line is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The name refers to the fact that Gunma and Tochigi pre ...

s. The

Jōetsu Line The is a major railway line in Japan, owned by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture with Miyauchi Station in Niigata Prefecture, linking the northwestern Kanto region and the Sea of Japan c ...

and

Shin'etsu Main Line The Shinetsu Main Line ( ja, 信越本線, ) is a railway line, consisting of three geographically separated sections, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan. It was originally one continuous line connecting and via . ...

both terminate at Takasaki Station. The Jōshin Dentetsu Jōshin Line also terminates at Takasaki Station and is 33.7 kilometers from the opposing terminus of the line at .

Station layout

The Shinkansen portion of the station has two elevated

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s, with the station building underneath. The JR East local portion of the station has three ground-level island platforms, with one platform forming a half-bay platform, so that a total of seven tracks can be served, and the Jōshin Dentetsu portion of the station has a single bay platform.

JR East

Jōshin Dentetsu

History

The JR East station opened on May 1, 1884, as the then-terminus of the

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. The Jōshin Line opened on May 10, 1897. Upon the privatization of the

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(JNR) on 1 April 1987, it came under the control of JR East. The Jōetsu Shinkansen was extended to Takasaki Station on November 15, 1982.

Bus terminals

Buses serving the station are operated by the following operators. * Gunma Bus * Gunma Chuo Bus * Kan-etsu Kotsu * Joshin Railway * Nippon Chuo Bus

Highway buses

* ''Sendai Liner''; For Sendai Station (Nippon Chuo Bus) * ''Azalea''; For Narita International Airport (Kan-etsu kotsu, Chiba Kotsu) * ''Airport Limousine''; For

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(Nippon Chuo Bus,

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) * For

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, Shinjuku, and

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(Nippon Chuo Bus) * For

Niigata Station is a major railway station in Chūō-ku, Niigata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is at the centre of Niigata city, the largest city on the Sea of Japan coast in Honshu. It forms the central station for the ...

, Bandai City Bus Center (Nippon Chuo Bus) * For

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(Kan-etsu Kotsu, Fujikyu Yamanashi Bus) * For

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and

Kenroku-en Kenroku-en (兼六園, Six Attributes Garden), located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, is an old private garden. Along with Kairaku-en and Kōraku-en, Kenroku-en is one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan. The grounds are open year-round except ...

(Nippon Chuo Bus) * ''Silk Liner''; For Kanayama Station,

Nagoya Station is a major railway station in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is one of the world's largest train stations by floor area (410,000 m2), and houses the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). Much of this space is located in ...

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Kyōto Station is a major railway station and transportation hub in Kyōto, Japan. It has Japan's second-largest station building (after Nagoya Station) and is one of the country's largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater, Isetan ...

, and Osaka City Air Terminal( Namba Station) (Nippon Chuo Bus)

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 32,160 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The Jōshin Dentetsu portion of the station was used by 2280 passengers daily in fiscal 2018.

References

External links

Takasaki Station information
(JR East) {{Joshin dentetsu Joshin Line Railway stations in Gunma Prefecture Stations of East Japan Railway Company Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company Railway stations in Japan opened in 1884 Takasaki, Gunma Takasaki Line Ryōmō Line Agatsuma Line Jōetsu Line Hachikō Line Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Shin'etsu Main Line Hokuriku Shinkansen Jōetsu Shinkansen