Monorail Hamamatsucho Station (モノレール浜松町駅) is in Minato, Tokyo, and Tokyo Monorail runs it next to JR East's Hamamatsucho Station. The JR station opened on 16 December 1909, and the monorail platform was opened in 1964.
History
Hamamatsucho Station opened on 16 December 1909 on the Tokaido Main Line between Shinagawa and Karasumori. Keihin electric trains began running on 20 December 1914. The national railways became the Japanese National Railways on 1 June 1949. A second platform for north-south separation came into use on 8 May 1955. The Keihin-Tohoku and Yamanote lines were separated on 19 November 1956.
The Tokyo Monorail station opened on 17 September 1964. The Toei Subway Line 1 (now the Asakusa Line) Daimon station opened on 1 October 1964, and transfers began. In 1965 Tokyo Monorail paid for an overpass and a link to the JR south gate. The JR station building was installed in March 1984. The monorail station was renovated and came back into use on 21 April 1984.
JR East took over the station on 1 April 1987. JR automatic ticket gates were installed on 25 December 1992. A monorail south exit opened on 18 July 1996. The MCAT monorail air terminal opened on 15 November 1998. The Oedo Line Daimon station opened on 12 December 2000. Suica could be used at JR from 18 November 2001, and on Tokyo Monorail from 21 April 2002. A link passage between JR and Tokyo Monorail opened on 19 July 2003.
MCAT closed on 30 September 2010. The monorail station was renewed on 2 November 2015. Yamanote Line platform doors came into use on 28 March 2020. The Midori no Madoguchi counter closed on 31 August 2023. A new south free passage and exit opened on 6 March 2025. Eki-net Q Ticket began on 1 October 2025.
On 13 June 2026 the monorail station began using new north and central gates, and the old central and south gates closed. Rebuilding of the monorail station building is planned to finish in December 2029.
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