is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku,

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, Japan. It is the busiest station in

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and the fifth-busiest in the world as of 2013, serving 760 million passengers a year.

Lines

Yokohama Station is served by the following lines: *

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(JR East) ** Tokaido Main Line ** Yokosuka Line ** Yokohama Line ** Shōnan-Shinjuku Line ** Keihin-Tohoku Line ** Negishi Line *

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* Sagami Railway (Sotetsu) ** Sotetsu line symbol

Sagami Railway Main Line *

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* Yokohama Minatomirai Railway ** Number prefix Minatomirai

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** (

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's Tokaido Shinkansen passes through Shin-Yokohama Station, not Yokohama Station.)

Station layout

Keikyu and JR East

The JR East and Keikyu platforms are located in the main above-ground portion of Yokohama Station. Keikyu's section consists of platforms 1 to 2, JR East operates platforms 3 to 10. File:JR Yokohama Station Central North Gates.jpg, Central North gates to JR platforms File:Yokohama Station Keikyu Transfer Gates.jpg, Keikyu transfer gates File:Keikyu Yokohama Station platform 1 20150809.JPG, Keikyu platform 1, 2015 File:JR Yokohama Station Platform 3・4.jpg, JR platforms 3 and 4 File:JR Yokohama Station Platform 5・6.jpg, JR platforms 5 and 6 File:JR Yokohama Station Platform 7・8.jpg, JR platforms 7 and 8 File:JR Yokohama Station Platform 9・10.jpg, JR platforms 9 and 10

Tokyu and Minatomirai

and the Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company share the same underground station located in the 5th underground level of Yokohama Station, to the west of the JR platforms. File:Yokohama eki 1.jpg, Toyoko Line/Minatomirai Line ticket gates, April 2004 File:Tōyoko_and_Minatomirai_Line_Yokohama_Station_Platform.jpg, Toyoko Line/Minatomirai Line platform, 2019

Yokohama Municipal Subway

The

is located on the 3rd basement level, west of the main station. File:Yokohama Station Yokohama Subway.jpg, Yokohama Municipal Subway station

Sotetsu

Sagami Railway is an above-ground structure to the west of the main station, connected to the Sotetsu Department Store. File:Guide sign of Sagami Railway Line - Yokohama Station 2.jpg, The Sotetsu platforms, February 2014 Minatomirai Line Yokohama Station Information (cropped)

Minatomirai Line Yokohama Station Information (cropped)

Bus services

Expressway bus (daytime)

*Yokohama City Air Terminal **For

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Expressway bus (overnight)

*Yokohama City Air Terminal **For JR

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*Eastside bus terminal **For JR

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, JR Ōsaka Station, JR Sendai Station, JR

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Local routes

*Yokohama Municipal Bus *Sotetsu Bus *Kanachu Bus *Keikyu Bus

Surrounding area

The west and east have a complex underground business district which spans over several floors and is directly connected with the buildings which surround the station. Yokohama station has three bus terminals, and two other bus terminals are located near the station.

East entrance

*Porta (underground shopping mall) * Sogo (department store, with Yokohama station eastside bus terminal) *Lumine (shopping building) *Kiyoken *

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(0101) (department store) *Yokohama Sky Building (with Yokohama City Air Terminal, and its bus terminal) *Bay Quarter Yokohama (shopping center) *Yokohama Plaza Hotel *Yokohama Central Post Office * The Port Service Yokohama Station East Exit pier

West entrance

*The Diamond (underground shopping mall, and stairs to westside bus terminal) *

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(department store) *CIAL (shopping building : under construction) *Sotetsu Joinus (shopping building) *Sotetsu Movil 109 cinemas *Yokohama station westside second bus terminal *Yokohama Cinema Society *Yokohama Excel Hotel Tokyu (under construction) *Yokohama Bay Sheraton Hotel and Towers *Yokohama More's (shopping building, with Tokyu Hands Yokohama store) *

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Yokohama store *

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Yokohama store *Vivre (shopping building) *

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(supermarket) *NTT Yokohama East Building

History

First station

On 7 May 1872 (12 June in

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), Yokohama Station (original station, now Sakuragichō Station) opened as one of the first railway stations in Japan. On 11 July 1887, the railway was extended from Yokohama to Kōzu Station. Through trains between

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and Kōzu Station required a switchback at Yokohama Station. On 1 August 1898, a line bypassing Yokohama Station was opened to avoid the switchback. Through trains stopped at Kanagawa Station or

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instead of Yokohama Station, and shuttle trains connected Yokohama and Hodogaya until Hiranuma Station opened near present-day Hiranumabashi Station on 10 October 1901. Hiranuma Station had no connection to public transport such as trams, so that major part of the passengers for the city continued to use trains that stopped at Yokohama Station.

Second station

Yokohama station 2nd with elevated freight line

On 15 August 1915, the second Yokohama Station opened close to the present day Takashimachō Station to allow Tōkaidō Main Line trains to call at Yokohama Station. The original Yokohama Station was renamed Sakuragichō Station. JR East uses this date as the opening date of the current Yokohama Station. The terminal of the Keihin Line (present-day Keihin-Tōhoku Line) had been in Takashimachō since 1914 and was merged with the new station. The government-run electric line was later that year extended to Sakuragichō. On 1 September 1923, the station was destroyed by a fire in the

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. Six days later, the station reopened with a temporary building. The city of Yokohama and the Ministry of Railways agreed in February 1924 that the station would be relocated. On 18 May 1928, the Tokyo Yokohama Railway (now the

) was extended from its former terminal at Kanagawa Station to the station. The extension line passed through the construction site of the new Yokohama Station of the government railways.

Third station

On 15 October 1928, the third (current) Yokohama Station opened on the north side of the second station. The Tōkaidō Main Line also moved to its current route, which was the route of the bypass line opened in 1898. The government railways and the Toyoko Line shared the station from the beginning. On 5 February 1930, the Keihin Electric Railway (now the

) was connected to the station. On 27 December 1933, the Jinchū Railway (now the Sotetsu Main Line) was connected to the station. On 9 December 1957, the north side underground entrance opened. On 1 December 1965, the

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on-line ticket reservation system was introduced at the station. On 4 September 1976, the Yokohama City Subway Line No. 3 was connected to Yokohama Station. On 7 November 1980, the new east station building and east-west passage opened. On 31 January 2004, The Tōkyū Tōyoko Line platform reopened underground, and on 1 February 2004, the Minatomirai Line opened.

2020

On 26 August 2010, JR East announced the development of a new station building to replace the current West Entrance, tentatively named the . It opened in 2020 before the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. The development includes a 26-story retail and office building, , on the site of the current West Entrance and a nine-story building to the north-east, , which includes parking and childcare facilities.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 406,594 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the busiest JR East station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fourth-busiest on the JR East network as a whole. The JR East passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

References

External links

JR-East Yokohama Station information

Keikyu Railway Train and Bus information

Transportation Bureau, City of Yokohama (Municipal Subway and Bus)
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