Shinagawa Station (品川駅) is a railway station in Minato, Tokyo, run by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It opened on 12 June 1872, and its lines are the Tōkaidō Line, Yamanote Line, Yokosuka Line, Keihin–Tōhoku Line, Tokaido Shinkansen and Narita Express (N'EX).
History
Work on the station building began on 10 September 1871, and the building was finished on 20 January 1872. It was a single-story Western-style building. At that time the station was called Shinagawa Station (品川ステーション). The total cost was about 5,427 ryō. On 12 June 1872 the station opened. The section to Yokohama Station (now Sakuragicho Station) opened on a temporary basis at the same time. On 15 October 1872 the section from Shinbashi Station (later Shiodome Station) through this station to Yokohama formally opened. On 1 March 1885 the Nippon Railway Shinagawa Line, now the Yamanote Line, began running into the station.
Freight handling began on 1 April 1898. On 8 May 1904 the line opened from Shinagawa Station (now Kita-Shinagawa Station) to Yawata Station (now Omori-Kaigan Station). On 24 December 1905 the line from Shinagawa Station to Kanagawa Station opened. On 1 November 1906 Nippon Railway was nationalized under the Railway Nationalization Act. On 12 October 1909 the line was placed under the Tōkaidō Main Line. On 11 March 1925 the Keihin Electric Railway opened Takanawa Station. At the same time, Shinagawa Station was moved and renamed Kita-Shinagawa Station. Part of the track between Takanawa and Kita-Shinagawa was shared with the Tokyo City Streetcar. On 1 April 1933 this shared use ended. New track was laid between Shinagawa and Kita-Shinagawa so that trains could run into this station directly. This station opened, and Takanawa Station was abolished. North of Yokohama Station the track gauge was changed from 1372 mm to 1435 mm. Direct trains between this station and Uraga Station began.
In 1942 the station became a station of the Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway. On 1 May 1944 train operations were split between this station and Koganecho Station, and between Yokohama and Uraga stations. On 24 May 1945 air raids in the Pacific War damaged the station grounds. The station building was not damaged. In 1948 the station became a station of the Keihin Kyuko Electric Railway. Direct trains to Uraga Station were restored on 15 July 1948. On 1 June 1949 Japanese National Railways (JNR) was established. On 16 February 1953 the overhead bridge inside the station was abolished, and an underground passage came into use. On 1 October 1964 the Tokaido Shinkansen opened, and the Shinagawa Signal Field was set up. Container freight handling also began at the station. On 31 July 1965 a Yamanote Line inner-loop train collided from the side with a non-revenue train passing a switch inside the station. 15 people were injured. On 21 June 1968 the line from this station to Sengakuji Station opened. Mutual through-running with the Toei Subway Line 1 (now the Toei Asakusa Line) began, mainly for limited express and express trains.
On 1 October 1980 the Sobu Rapid Line and Yokosuka Line operating systems were unified, and through-running began. General container and cargo handling ended. The freight platforms that had spread southeast of the station were removed. The Yokosuka Line no longer used the Tōkaidō Line platforms. On 1 November 1986 luggage handling ended. On 1 April 1987 JNR was privatized, and its stations passed to JR East and JR Freight. On 3 December 1994 freight train service ended. On 1 October 1996 the Tōkaidō freight line between Shinagawa and Hamamatsuchō was abolished. On 26 May 1997 the groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new Tokaido Shinkansen Shinagawa station. On 4 October 1997 the 12-car section of the Toei Asakusa Line direct limited express was extended to this station. Express trains running through to the Airport Line appeared, and many more Toei Asakusa Line direct trains began running. Before the east-west passage was built, there was no free passage across the tracks. To walk between the east and west exits, people had to buy an entry ticket and pass through the ticket gates. The connecting passage to the JR platforms was underground. Heavy rain sometimes flooded it, and once this disrupted train service. This was fixed when the station was raised. On 1 November 1998 the east-west passage (Rainbow Road) was completed, and the station became a bridge-style station building. On 18 November 1998 Haneda Airport Station (now Haneda Airport Terminal 1 and 2 Station) opened on the Airport Line. Airport Kaitoku (エアポート快特) and Airport Tokkyu (エアポート特急) services began with it.
On 18 November 2001 Suica became usable. On 1 October 2003 JR Central's Tokaido Shinkansen Shinagawa station opened. As part of the opening event, Sony's QRIO robot became the first robot to ride the Shinkansen, from this station to Shizuoka Station. On 1 October 2005 the in-station shopping facility Ecute Shinagawa opened. On 15 March 2008 all Tokaido Shinkansen trains began to stop at this station. The new Yokosuka Line platform came into use on the same day. Platform doors came into use on Yamanote platforms 1 and 2 on 11 August 2016, on Keihin–Tōhoku platform 5 (for Ofuna) on 15 December 2018, and on Keihin–Tōhoku platform 4 (for Ōmiya) on 28 April 2020. On 16 March 2019 the arrival time of the last inner-loop Yamanote train moved from 1:19 a.m. to 0:52 a.m., because a storage track at this station was to be removed for improvement work. On 16 November 2019 parts of the Keihin–Tōhoku and Yamanote lines were suspended for track-switching work, for the station improvement and for the opening of Takanawa Gateway Station. On 1 April 2020 work began on a continuous grade separation project between this station and Shinbaba Station. On 5 December 2021 the Yamanote outer-loop platform moved from track 2 to track 3. Tracks 3 and 4 were widened from 9 meters to 13 meters.
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