Kawasaki Station (川崎駅) is in Kawasaki Ward, Kawasaki City. East Japan Railway Company runs it. The lines served are the Nambu Line, the Tōkaidō Line and the Keihin-Tōhoku Line. It opened on 10 July 1872.
History
Kawasaki Station (川崎駅) opened on 10 July 1872, together with Kanagawa Station, as the third railway station in Japan. In 1898 the station began handling freight. On 20 December 1914 the Keihin Line (now the Keihin-Tōhoku Line) began running. On 26 December 1914 trains were stopped by frequent electric train failures, and service resumed on 10 May 1915. On 1 May 1918 the Tōkaidō freight branch opened to Hamakawasaki.
On 9 March 1927 the Nambu Railway line opened to Noborito. On 1 April 1944 the Nambu Railway was nationalised. On 14 October 1944 a Kawasaki city tram stop opened in front of the station. On 1 December 1958 the public part of the station building opened. On 1 April 1959 the public station building was completed, the first of its kind in Kanagawa Prefecture. On 1 June 1960 the Yokosuka Line began stopping here all day. On 1 April 1969 the Kawasaki city tram stop closed.
On 1 October 1973 the freight branch between here and Hamakawasaki closed. After the Tōkaidō and Yokosuka lines were separated on 1 October 1980, the Yokosuka Line no longer passed through here, and all local Tōkaidō trains began to stop. On 1 September 1981 freight handling ended. On 1 October 1986 the Kawasaki Azalea underground mall opened, along with the east bus terminal. On 1 April 1987 the station became part of JR East. On 28 June 1988 the station building was elevated, and the Keihin-Tōhoku platform was extended.
On 10 March 1992 automatic ticket gates came into use. On 18 November 2001 Suica became usable on JR. On 9 April 2011 Nambu Line rapid service began. On 23 February 2014 an empty Keihin-Tōhoku train collided with a construction vehicle in the early morning, and derailed and overturned, so trains were stopped all day between Kamata and Tsurumi. On 14 March 2015 the Ueno-Tokyo Line opened, and Tōkaidō trains began running through to the Utsunomiya and Takasaki lines.
On 10 December 2017 the Tōkaidō platform melody was changed to Ue o Muite Arukō (上を向いて歩こう). On 18 March 2020 the STATION BOOTH shared office opened. On 21 March 2020 platform doors came into use on some platforms. On 18 December 2020 the Bu Plaza closed. On 24 July 2024 smart platform doors came into use on other platforms. On 14 March 2025 the Nambu Line became one-person operation, and the melodies on those platforms were removed.
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