Minami-Urawa Station (南浦和駅) is in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) runs it. The Musashino Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line serve it. It opened on 1 July 1961.
History
At the time, Urawa city asked for the station. The gap between Warabi and Urawa stations was long, and the Urawa electric train depot for the Keihin-Tohoku Line (now the Saitama Rolling Stock Center) was built between them. So the stop was set up for trains going in and out of the depot. The station opened on 1 July 1961 as a national railway station. It was built as an elevated station from the start. On 1 April 1973, the Musashino Line opened and its platforms were added. On 1 April 1987, the national railway was split up, and the station became a JR East station.
On 30 June 1992, automatic ticket gates came into use. On 18 November 2001, Suica became usable. On 4 December 2010, the Shimousa train began running on the Musashino Line, linking Omiya with the Minami-Funabashi direction. On 22 July 2013, a woman fell into the gap between a train and the Keihin-Tohoku Line platform. Passengers on the platform and inside the train, with station staff, pushed the train car to tilt it, and she was rescued.
On 10 March 2014, an elevator connecting the concourse with the first and second platforms came into use. On 31 July 2014, an elevator for the third and fourth platforms came into use. On 31 January 2016, an elevator for the fifth and sixth platforms came into use, and a stairway between the third and fourth platforms and the sixth platform opened. On 29 March 2016, an elevator to the west exit came into use. On 29 March 2017, an elevator to the east exit came into use, and the station became barrier-free.
On 23 February 2019, platform doors came into use on the first platform, for southbound Keihin-Tohoku Line trains. On 8 February 2020, platform doors came into use on the fourth platform, for northbound Keihin-Tohoku Line trains. On 21 October 2022, the Midori no Madoguchi ticket window closed. On 22 October 2022, a reserved-seat ticket machine with voice guidance was introduced. On 30 March 2026, slit-frame platform doors came into use on the two middle platforms of the Keihin-Tohoku Line.
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