Higashi-Totsuka Station (東戸塚駅) is a ground-level station with a concourse in Yokohama. East Japan Railway Company runs it on the Yokosuka Line and the Shōnan–Shinjuku Line. It opened on 1 October 1980.
History
The Tokaido Line between Yokohama and Kozu was extended on 11 July 1887, and Totsuka Station opened on that line. In September 1923 a plan was made for a station called Musashi, close to the present site, but the Great Kanto Earthquake later that year ended the plan. In 1939 residents began a campaign for a new station. They started again just after the war ended. In 1965 local volunteers formed a committee to promote a provisional Higashi-Totsuka Station. Their signature drive gathered more than fifteen thousand names, which were presented to the mayor of Yokohama and the chairman of the city council. In 1967 they asked the national railway president for a new station. In 1969 the mayor of Yokohama at the time, Kazuo Asuda, replied in favour of promoting the new station. In August 1970 the campaign petitioned the national railway head office.
In August 1972 a residents' rally was held at Koito Industries in Maeda-cho, Totsuka Ward. The signatures reached over one hundred thousand, and officials and residents began to work together. In September 1972 Kanagawa Governor Bungo Tsuda asked the national railway president for a new station. In 1973 the campaign formed a promotion alliance and began talks with Yokohama City. In 1974 the Minister of Construction approved the project for land acquisition for the national railway's new Yokohama freight line. In 1977 the alliance signed a memorandum with the Yokohama City Planning Bureau. In February 1979 construction of the new station began, with a groundbreaking ceremony.
On 27 August 1980 the station name Higashi-Totsuka was chosen. An opening ceremony was held on 30 September. The station opened on 1 October 1980 as a passenger-only station. It opened at the same time as Tokaido and Yokosuka line trains began running on separate tracks. On the same day, Shin-Kawasaki Station opened on the Yokosuka Line.
The west station plaza opened in 1982. On 1 April 1987, when the national railway was split up, the station passed to JR East. On the same day the end point of a branch line from Tsurumi to Yokohama Hazawa was moved from Totsuka Station to Higashi-Totsuka. Automatic ticket gates came into use on 22 October 1993. In March 1998 the Higashi-Totsuka West Plaza opened on the west side as part of station-area redevelopment, with the Coop Kanagawa store as its key tenant. On 7 October 1999 the Aurora City complex opened on the east side, with Seibu and Daiei stores as key tenants.
Suica could be used from 18 November 2001. On 20 October 2003 the bus routes serving Higashi-Totsuka were reorganised. Morera Higashi-Totsuka opened on the west side in 2009, with Tokyu Store as its key tenant. On 1 July 2019 the station's operations were contracted out. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 24 January 2024. On 25 January 2024 a 'talking' reserved-seat ticket machine (話せる指定席券売機) was introduced.
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