田端

Tabata Station

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Tabata is a railway station in Tokyo.

Tabata Station (田端駅) in Kita, Tokyo, serves the Yamanote Line and the Keihin–Tōhoku Line. It opened on 1 April 1896 as a Nippon Railway station.

History

The station opened on 1 April 1896 as a new station on the Nippon Railway between Ueno and Akabane, and it handled freight from the start. On 25 December 1896 the line from here to Tsuchiura opened. On 8 August 1901 the lines were combined and named the Kaigan Line. On 1 April 1903 a Yamanote branch line to Ikebukuro opened, to carry coal from the Joban coalfield to Yokohama port. On 1 April 1905 the Nippori to Mikawajima section opened. Trains from Ueno no longer passed through here, and the Tabata to Mikawajima section became a goods line. The Nippon Railway was nationalised on 1 November 1906. On 12 October 1909 the station was placed on the Tohoku Main Line.

The first hump (ハンプ) in Japan was set up at the freight marshalling yard in 1917. A hump is a sloped track used to sort freight wagons. Freight and yard work were separated on 17 February 1961 with the opening of Tabata Shunting Station (田端操駅, now 田端信号場駅). Luggage handling ended on 1 October 1964.

JR East took over the station on 1 April 1987. Automatic gates were installed on the north exit on 19 May 1990 and on the south exit on 10 November 1990. Suica became usable on 18 November 2001. Rebuilding began in the summer of 2005. A temporary north station building opened on 12 November 2006. New north gates and lifts came into use on 23 March 2008, with two shops opened inside the gates. An escalator opened on 17 May 2008, and all escalators were in use from 1 July 2008. The station building Atrevi Tabata (アトレヴィ田端) opened on 30 July 2008.

The Midori ticket window closed on 16 November 2014. Platform doors started on the Yamanote Line on 21 February 2015 and on the Keihin–Tōhoku Line on 8 March 2022. Eki-Net Q Ticket started on 1 October 2025.

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Written by an AI from this station's own sourced facts (the dated events in the Data view), nothing else, and checked by a program for dates and numbers that are not in those facts. It can still be wrong. Found a mistake? . Adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0; this text is shared under the same licence.

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1896 4月1日

The station opened as a new station on the Nippon Railway line between Ueno Station and Akabane Station, and also began handling freight, at a time when only the line that would later become the Tohoku Main Line was in operation.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

日本鉄道の上野駅 - 赤羽駅駅間に新駅として開業。貨物取り扱いも開始。当時はのちに東北本線となる路線のみが開業していた。

1896 12月25日

The section between the current station and Tsuchiura Station, part of the Tsuchiura Line, which later became the Jōban Line, was opened.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

当駅 - 土浦駅間（土浦線、のちの常磐線）が開業。

1901 8月8日

The Tsuchiura Line and its affiliated lines were integrated and renamed the Coastal Line.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

土浦線とその付属路線を統合して海岸線と改称。

1903 4月1日

The section from the station to Ikebukuro (Yamanote Line branch) opened as a shortcut line to transport coal from the Joban coal field and other goods to Yokohama Port.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

常磐炭田の石炭などを横浜港へ運搬するための短絡線として当駅 - 池袋間（山手線支線）が開業。

1905 4月1日

The section between Nippori Station and Mikawashima Station opened, and trains running between Ueno Station and Tsuchiura Station no longer passed through this station, with the section between this station and Mikawashima becoming a freight line.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

日暮里駅 - 三河島駅間が開業。上野駅方面 - 土浦駅方面間の列車は当駅を経由しなくなり、当駅 - 三河島間は貨物線となる。

1906 11月1日

The station became a government railway station due to the nationalization of Nippon Railway.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

日本鉄道の国有化により、官設鉄道の駅となる。

1909 10月12日

The line designation was established, and it became part of the Tōhoku Main Line.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

線路名称の制定により、東北本線の所属となる。

1917

Japan's first hump was installed at a freight yard.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

貨物操車場に日本初のハンプが設置される。

1961 2月17日

The cargo handling and yard operations were separated, and Tataba Shunt Station (now Tabata Signal Field Station) opened.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

貨物の取り扱いと操車場の両業務を分離して田端操駅（現在の田端信号場駅）が開業。

1964 10月1日

The handling of freight was abolished.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

荷物の扱いを廃止。

1987 4月1日

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on the Tōhoku Main Line.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

国鉄分割民営化に伴い、東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）の駅（東北本線所属）となる。

1990 5月19日

Automatic ticket gates were introduced at the north exit.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

北口に自動改札機を導入。

1990 11月10日

Automatic ticket gates were introduced at the south entrance.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

南口に自動改札機を導入。

2001 11月18日

The IC card "Suica" becomes available for use.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

ICカード「Suica」の利用が可能となる。

2005

In the summer, reconstruction work commenced.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

夏：改築工事が着工。

2006 11月12日

The use of a temporary station building began due to the reconstruction of the north exit.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

北口建て替えに伴う仮駅舎の使用を開始。

2008 3月23日

The new north entrance ticket gate and two elevators began operation, and two stores opened inside the ticket gate.

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新北口改札とエレベーター2基使用開始。改札内に2店舗が開業。

2008 5月17日

One escalator began operation.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

エスカレーター1基が使用を開始。

2008 7月1日

Full use of the escalator began.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

エスカレーターの全面使用を開始。

2008 7月30日

The station building "Atre Vi Kita" opened.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

駅ビル「アトレヴィ田端」が開業。

2014 11月16日

The Midori no Madoguchi service ended operations.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

みどりの窓口の営業を終了。

2015 2月21日

The platform doors on the Yamanote Line began operating.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

山手線のホームドアが稼働開始。

2022 3月8日

The platform doors on the Keihin-Tohoku Line began operating.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

京浜東北線のホームドアが稼働開始。

2025 10月1日

The Ekinet Q-Chike service was started.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

えきねっとQチケのサービスを開始。

Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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