Sakuragichō Station

Sakuragichō Station 桜木町駅
Sakuragichō Station as seen from the top of the Landmark Tower, August 2014
Location	1 Sakuragichō, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa （神奈川県横浜市中区桜木町1丁目） Japan
Operated by	JR East Yokohama Municipal Subway
Line(s)	■ Negishi Line ■ Blue Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1872
Previous names	Yokohama (until 1915)
Traffic
Passengers (JR East, FY2013)	65,392 daily
Location
Sakuragichō Station Location within Japan

Sakuragichō Station (桜木町駅, Sakuragichō-eki^?), is a railway station in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Yokohama Municipal Subway.

Sakuragichō Station is served by the JR East Negishi Line (Keihin-Tohoku Line), with some services through-running to and from the Yokohama Line, and also by the Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line (station number B18).

The JR East station consists of two elevated island platforms serving three tracks.

The station has two sets of ticket barriers ("North" and "South" gates), with entrances on the east and west sides (four in total). The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office, next to the South gate.

The north-east entrance, August 2014

The north-west entrance, August 2014

The south-west entrance, August 2014

The south-east entrance, August 2014

The north gate ticket barriers, August 2014

The view looking south from the end of platform 1/2 with the terminating middle track on the right, January 2015

The Yokohama Municipal Subway (Blue Line) platforms are located on the 4th basement level, south of the main station.

Sakuragichō is one of Japan's oldest stations. It opened on June 12, 1872, as the original Yokohama Station when the service between Shinagawa and Yokohama provisionally started. The station was renamed Sakuragichō Station on August 15, 1915, when the then-new and second Yokohama Station opened near Takashimachō Station. Yokohama Station was relocated again after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, to its third and current location.