桜木町
Sakuragicho Station
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1872
6月12日
The station was opened with the provisional opening of the section between Shinbashi Station and Yokohama Station.
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横浜駅として品川駅 - 当駅間の仮開業に伴い開設。
1872
10月14日
The railway formally opened between Shinbashi Station (later Shiodome Station) and this station, with the station building designed by American Richard Bridgens.
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新橋駅（後の汐留駅） - 当駅間で鉄道が正式開業。駅舎はアメリカ人リチャード・ブリジェンスの設計（日本の鉄道開業も参照）。
1873
9月15日
Freight handling began.
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貨物の取り扱いを開始。
1887
7月11日
The government railway was extended and opened to Kōfu Station, with a switchback-style track configuration.
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官設鉄道が国府津駅まで延伸開業、スイッチバック式の配線となる。
1904
7月15日
The Yokohama Electric Railway, later the Kanagawa Line, a streetcar line, opened, with stops at Oe-bashi and another unknown-named stop near the current Yokohama Landmark Tower.
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路面電車の横浜電気鉄道(のちの神奈川線）が開業し、大江橋付近に大江橋停留所を、現在の横浜ランドマークタワー付近に停留所（名称不明）を設置。
1909
10月12日
It becomes a station on the Tokaido Main Line.
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東海道本線所属駅となる。
1914
With the improvement work on the Keihin Line (now the Tokaido Main Line), the Yokohama Electric Railway Kanagawa Line was relocated to National Route 16, and the Sakuragicho Station-mae and Koyouzaka stops were established.
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京浜線（現 東海道本線）の改良工事に伴い、横浜電気鉄道神奈川線を国道16号に移設し、桜木町駅前停留所・紅葉坂停留所を設置。
1915
8月15日
With the opening of the second Yokohama Station, the station was renamed Sakuragicho Station and became the terminal station of the Tokaido Line's electric train line, and the line to Hodogaya Station, formerly called Hodogaya Station, was abolished, eliminating the switchback.
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横浜駅（2代目）開業により桜木町駅に改称、東海道線の電車線の終点駅となった。程ヶ谷駅（現在の保土ケ谷駅）への路線が廃止され、スイッチバックが解消。
1915
12月30日
Freight handling was abolished, with the station and grounds of Tōyokohama Station being divided and freight operations transferred.
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貨物の取り扱いを廃止。東横浜駅と敷地を分割して貨物業務を移管。
1923
9月1日
The station building from the time of its opening was lost to fire due to the Great Kantō earthquake.
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関東大震災により、開業時からの駅舎は焼失。
1927
The station building was rebuilt.
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駅舎改築。
1932
3月31日
The Tōyō Line of Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway, later Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway, was extended from Takashima-chō Station and opened as its terminal station.
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東京横浜電鉄（のちの東京急行電鉄）の東横線が高島町駅から延伸開業し、その終着駅として開業。
1951
4月24日
A train on the Keihin Line caught fire within the station premises, resulting in a major disaster with 106 deaths and 92 injuries, known as the Sakuragichō accident, one of the five major post-war accidents of Japanese National Railways.
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構内で京浜線電車が全焼し、死者106名・負傷者92人を出す大惨事となる（桜木町事故、国鉄戦後五大事故の一つ）。
1956
9月10日
The section between Takashima-machi and this station was doubled-tracked.
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高島町 - 当駅間が複線化。
1964
5月19日
The Negishi Line was extended to Isoko Station and simultaneously the station's affiliation was changed to the Negishi Line.
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根岸線が磯子駅まで開通、同時に根岸線所属に変更。
1964
6月1日
The Tōkaidō Main Line freight branch line, the Kōjima Line, was extended to Kōjima Station.
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東海道本線貨物支線（高島線）が高島駅まで開通。
1970
The Yokohama Municipal Electric Railway Kanagawa Line closure led to the abolition of the Sakuragicho Station-mae stop.
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横浜市営電車神奈川線の廃線にともない、桜木町駅前停留所を廃止。
1971
2月20日
Yutenji Station, along with Gakugei-daigaku Station, was equipped with automated station systems, including the installation of automatic ticket gates and the introduction of magnetic tickets and encodable commuter pass issuing machines.
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駅業務システムの自動化モデル駅として、祐天寺駅、学芸大学駅と共に自動改札機を設置（5台）。自動券売機を磁気券化し、エンコード可能な定期券発行機を新設した。
1973
7月21日
The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office began operations.
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みどりの窓口の営業を開始。
1976
9月4日
The station opened when the No. 3 Line between Yokohama and Isezaki-chōjamachi was completed.
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3号線横浜 - 伊勢佐木長者町間の開通時に開業。
1985
3月14日
Freight handling was abolished.
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荷物扱い廃止。
1987
4月1日
With the privatization of JNR, it became a station of East Japan Railway.
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国鉄分割民営化により、東日本旅客鉄道の駅となる。
1989
3月17日
In 1989, the station building was relocated and rebuilt to coincide with the opening of the Yokohama Exposition.
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（平成元年）：横浜博覧会の開催に合わせて、駅舎を移転・新築（現駅舎）。
1993
6月16日
Automatic ticket gates were installed and put into service.
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自動改札機を設置し、供用開始。
1998
The station was selected for "Kanto's 100 Best Stations" with the reason being it is the birthplace of railways, which opened in 1872, and is now the gateway to the Minato Mirai 21 city.
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「関東の駅百選」に選定される。選定理由は「明治5年に開業した鉄道発祥の地の駅で、現在は『みなとみらい21』都市の玄関口となっている駅」。
2001
3月28日
A timetable revision led to the start of limited express operations on the Tōyō Line.
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ダイヤ改正により東横線の特急運行が開始。
2001
11月18日
The IC card "Suica" becomes available for use.
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ICカード「Suica」の利用が可能となる。
2004
1月30日
Operations ceased with the last train of the day, coinciding with the opening of the Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Minatomirai Line.
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横浜高速鉄道みなとみらい線の開業に伴い、この日の終電をもって営業終了。
2004
1月31日
Abolished.
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廃止。
2007
An elevator was newly installed inside the ticket gates.
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改札内にエレベーターを新設。
2007
3月18日
The IC card "PASMO" becomes available for use.
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ICカード「PASMO」の利用が可能となる。
2008
3月30日
The 3rd line was given the nickname Blue Line.
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3号線に「ブルーライン」の愛称を付与。
2012
5月1日
NTT docomo started a public wireless LAN service using docomo Wi-Fi.
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docomo Wi-Fiによる、公衆無線LANサービス開始。
2013
7月
The demolition of the old Sakuragichō Station building on the Tōyoko Line was completed.
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東横線の旧桜木町駅駅舎を解体完了。
2014
7月1日
The north ticket gate and east-west passage were opened.
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北改札および東西通路を開設。
2014
7月16日
The commercial facility "CIAL Sakuragicho" managed and operated by Yokohama Station Building opened, and "Sakuragicho Station West Exit Plaza" also opened simultaneously.
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横浜ステーシヨンビルが管理・運営する商業施設「CIAL桜木町」が開業。同時に「桜木町駅西口広場」もオープン。
2015
5月12日
Platform doors began operation.
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ホームドア使用開始。
2015
7月18日
The station is added as a stop for rapid services with the timetable revision.
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ダイヤ改正により運転を開始した快速の停車駅に設定される。
2015
7月25日
The departure melody was changed to "Senro wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo".
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発車メロディを『線路は続くよどこまでも』に変更。
2018
8月10日
The use of platform doors began on platforms 1 and 4.
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1・4番線でホームドアの使用を開始。
2020
6月27日
A new south exit, Shin-Minami-guchi, also known as the City Office exit, was opened on the south side of the station, along with the adjacent JR Sakuragicho Building, a complex that includes the JR East Japan Hotel Mets Yokohama Sakuragicho and the Cial Sakuragicho ANNEX commercial facility.
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当駅の南側に新南口（市役所口）を開設及び隣接する複合ビル「JR桜木町ビル」（ホテル「JR東日本ホテルメッツ横浜桜木町」・商業施設「CIAL桜木町ANNEX」が併設）が開業（後節参照）。
2021
4月22日
The line opened.
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開業。
2025
5月22日
At around 10:30 on the same day, the departure melody was changed to JRE-IKST-007, with a different tone for each platform, and the use of "Neroku wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo" was ended.
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同日10時30頃、発車メロディがJRE-IKST-007（全番線音色違い）に変更され、『線路は続くよどこまでも』の使用を終了。
2026
2月1日
The use of platform screen doors began on platforms 2 and 3.
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2・3番線ホームでスマートホームドアの使用を開始。
Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Departure Melodies
みかんの花咲く丘
作曲した海沼実が、車窓にみかん畑が現れる東海道線国府津駅付近でやっと前奏が浮かび、伊東線の宇佐美駅付近でようやく曲が完成したエピソードにちなむ。
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Sakuragicho Station is served by Negishi Line.