Hiyoshi Station (Kanagawa)

is an interchange passenger railway station located in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, jointly managed by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation and the Yokohama City Transportation Bureau.

Lines

Hiyoshi Station is served by the Tōyoko Line, Meguro Line and Tōkyū Shin-yokohama Line of Tōkyū Railways as well as the Green Line operated by the Yokohama Municipal Government. It is from the terminus of the Tōyoko Line at Shibuya Station, and from the terminus of the Meguro Line at Meguro Station. Some downbound (away from the Tokyo Metropolis) trains of the Tōyoko Line (express trains only) and Meguro Line through running to Tōkyū Shin-yokohama Line and may continue onward to the Sotetsu system.

Station layout

The Tokyu station is an elevated structure with two island platforms serving four tracks above ground. The station building is also connected to the Tokyu Store, a large upscale supermarket, and the reformed Tokyu Department Store on the second floor, which features many individually branded shops as well as a major consumer electronic shop (Yamada Denki) as a tenant occupying most of the third floor. The Yokohama Subway consists of a single island platform underground.

The Municipal Subway station has one island platforms serving two tracks for incoming trains to dock in alternating pattern.

The main fare gate concourse of Tokyu Railways is just above the Tokyu platforms which is before the Tokyu Store and bus terminal. The Tokyu Railways and Municipal Subway also share an integral underground fare gate concourse which is sandwiched between the platform levels of the two systems. The integral concourse allows quick interchange between the two systems.

Tokyu platforms

Yokohama Municipal Subway platforms

History

Hiyoshi Station opened as one of the original Tōyoko Line stations on 14 February 1926. The station was completely rebuilt in 1991 with half-submerged tracks and an elevated station building constructed above the tracks. The adjacent Tokyu Department store opened in 1995. The Yokohama Subway Green Line connected to Hiyoshi Station on March 30, 2008.

The Tōkyū Shin-yokohama Line from to Hiyoshi opened on 18 March 2023, enabling through services between the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line, the Tōkyū Meguro Line and the Sōtetsu Shin-yokohama Line. As a result, the station was assigned station number SH03 when these services began revenue operations.

Since the opening of the Shin-yokohama Line, most southbound express trains of the Meguro Line continue onward to the Shin-yokohama Line instead of terminating at Hiyoshi, while about half of the Meguro Line local trains remain terminating at/departing from Hiyoshi. Only some of the southbound express trains of the Tōyoko Line enter Shin-yokohama Line. The rest of the express, all limited express, commuter express and local trains remain on the Tōyoko Line for , and .

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the Tokyu station was used by an average of 206,301 passengers daily. During the same period, the Yokohama Municipal Subway was used by an average of 84,908 passengers daily,

The daily average passenger figures for previous years (boarding passengers only) are as shown below.

Surrounding area

*Keio University Hiyoshi Campus
* Keio University Yagami Campus (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
* Keio Senior High School
* Nihon University High School / Junior High School
* Tokyo College of Photography

See also

* List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

Tokyu station information


Yokohama Subway station information

{{Green Line (Yokohama)

Railway stations in Japan opened in 1926
Tokyu Toyoko Line
Tokyu Meguro Line
Green Line (Yokohama)
Stations of Tokyu Corporation
Railway stations in Yokohama