Tamachi Station (Tokyo)

Coordinates: 35°38′44″N 139°44′52″E / 35.645605°N 139.74770°E / 35.645605; 139.74770

JK22 JY27
Tamachi Station
田町駅
The Mita entrance in January 2015
Location Minato-ku, Tokyo
Japan
Operated by JR East
Line(s)
History
Opened 1909
Traffic
Passengers (FY2013) 144,433 daily
Location
Tamachi Station
Location within Special wards of Tokyo
Tamachi Station
Tamachi Station (Tokyo)
Tamachi Station
Tamachi Station (Japan)

Tamachi Station (田町駅, Tamachi-eki) is a railway station in the Tamachi neighborhood of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is served by the circular Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tōhoku Line. All trains stop at this station.

Mita Station on the Toei Asakusa Line and Toei Mita Line subway lines is within walking distance, although there is no physical connection and the stations are generally not marked as an interchange on route maps. Tamachi is the nearest JR station to Keio University's Mita campus and Temple University Japan's Mita and Azabu campuses.

Station layout

The station platforms in January 2015

The station consists of two island platforms providing cross-platform interchange in the direction of travel between the Yamanote Line (platforms 2 and 3) and the Keihin-Tōhoku Line (platforms 1 and 4). As this is the first cross-platform interchange following the intersection of both lines the platforms are comparatively busy.

Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in February 2013, entering operation in March.[1]

1 JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line for Tokyo, Ueno, and Ōmiya
2 JY Yamanote Line for Tokyo and Ueno
3 JY Yamanote Line for Shinagawa and Shibuya
4 JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line for Shinagawa, Yokohama, and Ōfuna

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Keihin-Tōhoku Line JK22
Shinagawa
SGWJK20
   Rapid   Hamamatsuchō
HMCJK23
Shinagawa
SGWJK20
   Local   Hamamatsuchō
HMCJK23
Yamanote Line JY27
Shinagawa
SGWJY25
 - Hamamatsuchō
HMCJY28

History

The Tokaido Main Line opened in 1872 and passed through Tamachi, which was at the time still submerged under Tokyo Bay. The area to the west of the Tokaido Line was filled in by the end of the 19th century, and the east side filled in during the early 1900s. Tamachi Station opened on December 16, 1909 as an intermediate station on the newly opened Shinagawa-Karasumori section of the Yamanote Line, then operated by Japanese National Railways. It was the sixteenth stop to open on the Yamanote Line.[2]

The area surrounding the station was predominantly industrial until the 1970s, with several confectionery, electronics and machinery factories. New development shifted to commercial buildings beginning with the Morinaga Plaza Building in 1970. The west side of Tamachi underwent a major redevelopment from 1988, resulting in the current elevated deck and pedestrian bridge over the adjacent Dai-Ichi Keihin road.[3]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 144,433 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the seventeenth-busiest station operated by JR East.[4]

The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal yearDaily average
2000154,714[5]
2005142,778[6]
2010149,477[7]
2011148,346[8]
2012145,724[9]
2013144,433[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 田町駅で可動式ホーム柵設置 [Platform edge doors installed at Tamachi Station on Yamanote Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 7 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "田町の歴史". TAMACHI REAL ESTATE Co.,Ltd. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "田町駅西口・札の辻交差点周辺地区 まちづくりガイドライン" (PDF). Minato City. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. 1 2 各駅の乗車人員　（2013年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  5. ↑ 各駅の乗車人員　（2000年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  6. ↑ 各駅の乗車人員　（2005年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  7. ↑ 各駅の乗車人員　（2010年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  8. ↑ 各駅の乗車人員　（2011年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  9. ↑ 各駅の乗車人員　（2012年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
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