Yokohama Station
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Yokohama Station
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Yokohama Station viewed from above, October 2005
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| Location | 1 Takashima (Keikyu) 2 Takashima (JR East) 1 Minami-Saiwai (Tokyu, Sotetsu, Subway) Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan |
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| Connections | Bus terminal |
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| Opened | 1872 |
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 Yokohama Station
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Yokohama Station (横浜駅 Yokohama-eki?) is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth busiest in the world as of 2013, serving 760 million passengers a year.
Yokohama Station is served by the following lines:
(JR Central's Tokaido Shinkansen passes through Shin-Yokohama Station, not Yokohama Station.)
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.
Tokyu Corporation 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.
The Yokohama Municipal Subway is located on the 3rd basement level, west of the main station.
Sagami Railway is an above-ground structure to the west of the main station, connected to the Sotetsu Department Store.
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.
On May 7, 1872 (June 12 in Gregorian calendar), Yokohama Station (original station, now Sakuragichō Station) opened as one of the first railway stations in Japan.
On July 11, 1887, the railway was extended from Yokohama to Kōzu Station. Through trains between Shimbashi Station and Kōzu Station required a switchback at Yokohama Station. On August 1, 1898, a line bypassing Yokohama Station was opened to avoid the switchback. Through trains stopped at Kanagawa Station or Hodogaya Station instead of Yokohama Station, and shuttle trains connected Yokohama and Hodogaya until Hiranuma Station opened near present-day Hiranumabashi Station on October 10, 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.
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