The Totsuka Station (, ) is an interchange passenger
railway station
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located in
Totsuka-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 Wards of Japan, wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 273,418 and a population density, density of 7,640 persons per km2. The total area was 35.70 km2.
...
, Japan, operated by the
East Japan Railway Company
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in ...
(JR East) and the
Yokohama City Transportation Bureau
The Yokohama City Transportation Bureau, legally the is the local government administrative agency in charge of public transportation, public transport services in the city of Yokohama, Japan.
Subway operations
The Yokohama Municipal Subway con ...
.
Lines
JR Totsuka Station is served by the
Tōkaidō Main Line
The Tōkaidō Main Line () is one of the most important railway corridors in Japan, connecting the major cities of Tokyo and Kobe via Shizuoka (city), Shizuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka. The line, with termini at Tokyo Station, Tokyo and Kōbe St ...
,
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 segment between and Kurihama sta ...
and
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and is 40.9 kilometers from . The underground
Blue Line station is 7.4 kilometers from the terminus of the subway line at .
Station layout
JR Totsuka Station is a ground level station with two
island platform
An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...
s serving four tracks, with an additional set of freight tracks on the west side. The platforms are connected to the station's two gates upstairs (over the tracks) and downstairs (underground). The station has a ''
Midori no Madoguchi
, short for ''Magnetic-electronic Automatic'' ''Reservation System,'' is a train ticket reservation system used by the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and travel agencies in Japan. It was developed jointly by Hitachi and the former Ja ...
'' staffed ticket office. The Yokohama Subway station, connected with the JR underground concourse, has one underground island platform.
JR East platforms
File:JR_Totsuka_Station_Upper-Level_Gates.jpg, Ticket gates
File:JR_Totsuka_Station_Platform_1・2.jpg, Platforms 1 and 2
File:JR_Totsuka_Station_Platform_3・4.jpg, Platforms 3 and 4
Yokohama Municipal Subway platforms
File:Blue line - Totsuka station 2024 May 23 various 15 29 54 037000.jpeg, Ticket gates
File:Yokohama-municipal-subway-B06-Totsuka-station-platform.jpg, Platform
History
JR East

Totsuka Station was opened on July 11, 1887, as a station on the
Japanese Government Railways
The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national rail transport, railway system directly operated by the until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Railways Group.
Name
The English name "Japanese ...
(JGR), the predecessor to the post-war
Japanese National Railways
The , abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.
Network Railways
As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...
(JNR).
The station building was originally on the west side of the station. The east gate was added in 1937. The current building over the tracks was completed on March 26, 1969.
On March 15, 1930, when Yokosuka Line trains were replaced by
electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number o ...
s, all Tokaido Line trains ceased to stop at Totsuka Station.
Before the Tokaido Line and Yokosuka Line were separated and the station became a junction of the two lines on October 1, 1980, the two lines used the same tracks, but only Yokosuka Line trains stopped at Totsuka Station. The current platforms 1 and 2 did not exist, and the platform 1 (now platform 3) served the Tokyo-bound Yokosuka Line, while line 2 (now line 4) served the away-from-Tokyo direction. Additionally, the current freight lines did not exist, with the old freight lines located where the current platforms 1 and 2 are. From March 1973 when one island platform was added, there were two island platforms, with platform 2 serving the Tokyo-bound trains, and platform 3 serving the other direction.
[ The lines on platforms 1 and 4 were built, but were not used until 1980.
Originally, the station handled both passengers and freight. In 1923, a separate freight yard was completed as a part of the station to the north of the passenger platforms across the crossing with Tōkaidō Highway. All freight operations were discontinued from May 1970.][ As the addition of the new freight lines claimed the land of the bus terminal in front of the station's west gate, the bus terminal was relocated to the site of the former freight yard in July 1971. The bus terminal is now called the Second Bus Center and is distinguished from the larger Bus Center beside the Totsukana building on the same side of the station.
With the ]privatization
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of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East.[ Shōnan-Shinjuku Line trains and '' Narita Express'' limited express services began stopping at Totsuka Station from December 1, 2001.
The timetable was revised on March 18, 2007, so that Tokaido Line ''Acty'' rapid trains all stopped at this station. This resolved the confusing situation that existed before, when the Shonan-Shinjuku Line rapid and special rapid trains stopped at the station, but Tokaido Line ''Acty'' services did not. Before the change, it was also the only station for changing trains at which the ''Acty'' did not stop. As before, the Tokaido Line commuter rapid still do not stop at this station.
]
Yokohama Municipal Subway
The Blue Line of the Yokohama Subway connected to Totsuka Station on 24 May 1987 with temporary facilities. The permanent subway station was opened on 27 August 1989.
Accidents
At 05:42 on December 15, 1923, local passenger train No. 21 to collided with the locomotive and a wagon of freight train No. 603, which was blocking the main line. Two locomotives and two wagons were overturned. As a result, the driver of train No. 603 was killed instantly and three passengers were slightly injured. The cause of the accident was a signalman's carelessness according to the official record of the railway.
At 09:52 on July 27, 1939, about 500 workers of a nearby Nippon Kōgaku factory entered the track near the station to see off a colleague. The semi-express train No. 221 to hit some of them, killing eight and injuring seven.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 112,598 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). In fiscal 2019, the Yokohama Municipal Subway station was used by an average of 44,137 passengers per day (boarding passengers only), making it the second busiest station on the Blue Line (after Yokohama)
The daily passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.
See also
* List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
JR Totsuka Station
Yokohama Subway Totsuka Station
{{ja-linecat, East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1887
Yokosuka Line
Blue Line (Yokohama)
Stations of Yokohama City Transportation Bureau
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Tōkaidō Main Line