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History, melodies, surroundingsAt this time, the station was not located in the center of the former Urawa-juku, but rather on the southeastern outskirts of the post town, near the Saitama Prefectural Government building.
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この際、当駅は旧浦和宿の中心ではなく、埼玉県庁に近い宿場町南東側の外れに設けられた。
The station opened when Nippon Railway opened the Ueno Station - Kumagaya Station section, initially as a ground-level station with 2 platforms and 3 tracks.
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日本鉄道が上野駅 - 熊谷駅間を開業した際に開業。開業から間もない頃は2面3線の地上駅であった。
The Akabane - Ōmiya section was double-tracked.
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赤羽駅 - 大宮駅間複線化。
It was nationalized under the Railway Nationalization Act.
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鉄道国有法により国有化。
The line came under the Tōhoku Main Line with the designation of line names.
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線路名称制定により東北本線の所属となる。
A bus service to Hatogaya started operation, although it is no longer in operation today.
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鳩ヶ谷方面への乗合バスが運行開始（現在は運行していない）。
Bus services to Shiki and Ōji commenced and are still operating.
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志木・大門方面へのバスが運行開始（現在も運行）。
The second station building was opened for use.
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2代目駅舎供用開始。
The east exit was opened.
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東口が開設される。
Around this time, the station had wooden station buildings at the west and east exits, connected by an underground passageway, and the current location of the west exit staircase was the site of the original platform, which had a wooden fence due to the absence of passenger trains on the freight line, while the so-called First Crossing had connected the east and west until before the war, but was abolished after the war due to increased traffic volume.
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この頃、当駅は西口と東口にそれぞれ木造の駅舎を構え、その間を地下通路でつなぐ構造になっていた。現在西口の階段があるところが開業時の本屋側ホーム跡であったが、ここを走る貨物線には列車が停車しないため、木製の柵が設けられていた。また、戦前までは通称第一踏切が東西を結んでいたが、戦後交通量増大で廃止された。
The section of the Tōhoku Main Line between Warabi Station and Yono Station was quadrupled with the addition of two freight lines, which did not have platforms at this station.
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東北本線蕨駅 - 与野駅間の貨物線2線が増設され複々線化。貨物線は当駅にホームを設置しなかった。
The Tōhoku Main Line electric train, now the Keihin-Tohoku Line, extended to Ōmiya Station and began operating in the section including this station, and until 1968, most Tōhoku Main Line trains, including Takasaki Line trains, passed through this station.
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東北本線電車（現在の京浜東北線）が大宮駅まで延伸開業し、当駅を含む区間で運行を開始。1968年まで東北本線列車（高崎線列車含む）のほとんどが当駅を通過するようになった。1968年の東北本線6線化まで、京浜東北線電車と東北・高崎線の中・長距離列車が同じレール上を走っていた。また、当駅南西に貨物駅が併設されており、貨物駅の配線が西口駅舎ぎりぎりまで伸びていた。この場所は現在東北貨物線が高架でまたいでおり、そのガード下に保線区が設けられている。昭和5年度の乗車人員は全国有鉄道中17位の中枢駅であったことから、埼玉県議会は鉄道大臣に停車の請願を行った。
Freight handling was abolished, and remnants of the freight station still exist, with the Urawa Post Office (now Urawa-Naka Post Office) located near the station.
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貨物取り扱いを廃止する。現在も貨物駅の名残りとして当駅至近に浦和郵便局（現・浦和中郵便局）が所在する。
In preparation for the 6-track expansion of the Tōhoku Main Line between Akabane Station and Yono Station, the west entrance station building was rebuilt, completing the 2-story west entrance station building that existed until 2012.
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東北本線赤羽駅 - 与野駅間6線化に備え、西口駅舎を改築（3代目駅舎）。2012年まで存在した2階建て西口駅舎が竣工する。
Two electrified lines were added to the section between Akabane Station and Yono Station on the Tohoku Main Line, increasing the total number of lines to six, and the Keihin-Tohoku Line trains and Tohoku and Takasaki Line trains were separated for the first time.
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東北本線赤羽駅 - 与野駅間に電車線2線が増設され6線化。京浜東北線電車と東北・高崎線列車が初めて分離される。早くから市街化が進んでいた当駅周辺では新たな2線分の土地を確保できず、貨物駅のあった土地に高架の新設貨物線を通し、旧来貨物線として使われていたスペースに東北線列車（高崎線列車含む）を通したため、地上を走る電車線、旅客線と西口駅舎背後を高架で走る貨物線という状況となった（いわゆる「通勤五方面作戦」の一環）。
New platforms were added to the Tohoku passenger line, and mid-distance trains began stopping during morning and evening rush hours only.
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東北旅客線にホームを新設。朝夕ラッシュ時のみ中距離列車が停車を開始。
Mid-distance trains began stopping at the station throughout the day.
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中距離列車の終日停車を開始。
Freight handling was abolished.
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荷物扱い廃止。
With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
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国鉄分割民営化に伴い、東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）の駅となる。
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。
Accompanying the elevation work, the down line of the Tohoku Main Line was relocated, and the elevation work was started due to the city being divided east and west by the station since its opening and the structural inability to stop the Shonan-Shinjuku Line, for which the method of securing a site for elevated construction on the east side of the Keihin-Tohoku Line and shifting one line to the east side was adopted to secure a platform for the Shonan-Shinjuku Line.
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高架化工事に伴い東北本線下り線を移設。開業以来市街地が駅によって東西に分断されていたことや、構造上停車できなかった湘南新宿ラインを停車させることを理由に高架化工事が開始。湘南新宿ラインの停車ホームを捻出するため、京浜東北線の東側に高架建設用の用地を確保し1線ずつ東側へずらす方法が採られた。まず高架化工事前に、東北旅客線ホーム南側にあった保線機械用の留置線を撤去し、列車線と京浜東北線のホームと線路を西へ移設するための線路切り替えを行い、東側用地の捻出を完了させた。
The Up Tōhoku Main Line was relocated due to elevated track construction work.
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高架化工事に伴い東北本線上り線を移設。
The northbound track of the Keihin-Tohoku Line was relocated due to elevated track construction work.
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高架化工事に伴い京浜東北線北行き線路を移設。
The southbound track of the Keihin-Tohoku Line was relocated due to elevated track construction work.
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高架化工事に伴い京浜東北線南行き線路を移設。
The east side of the Keihin-Tohoku Line was constructed with elevated tracks and platforms, and the southbound Keihin-Tohoku Line (Track 1) was relocated to the newly built elevated line.
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京浜東北線の東側に高架線路とホームを建設し、京浜東北線南行（1番線）を新設の高架線に移設。
The old southbound line was rebuilt with an elevated line, and the northbound Keihin-Tohoku Line was relocated to the newly constructed elevated line, completing the elevated platform for the Keihin-Tohoku Line, which became the first fully elevated station on the line within the prefecture.
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旧南行線上に高架線路を建設し、京浜東北線北行（2番線）を新設の高架線に移設。これにより京浜東北線高架ホームが完成。県内の京浜東北線では初の全面高架駅となった。
The old northbound line was rebuilt with elevated tracks and platforms, and the up track of the Tōhoku passenger line (Utsunomiya Line) was relocated to the newly constructed elevated line.
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旧北行線上に高架線路とホームを建設し、東北旅客線（宇都宮線）上り（3番線）を新設の高架線に移設。
An elevated line was constructed on the former up line, and the down Tōhoku Passenger Line (Utsunomiya Line) (No. 4 track) was relocated to the newly constructed elevated line, completing the elevated platform for the Tōhoku Passenger Line.
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旧上り線上に高架線路を建設し、東北旅客線（宇都宮線）下り（4番線）を新設の高架線に移設。これにより東北旅客線高架ホームが完成。
In the spring, construction began on the 5th and 6th platform of the Tohoku Freight Line, used for the Shonan-Shinjuku Line.
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春：東北貨物線（湘南新宿ライン）の5・6番線ホームを施工開始。
An elevated line was constructed on the former down track, and the southbound Tohoku Freight Line was relocated to the newly constructed elevated line.
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旧下り線上に高架線路を建設し、東北貨物線南行を新設の高架線に移設。
With the completion of the station's elevated structure construction, a new platform was added for the Tohoku freight line, and the Shonan-Shinjuku Line and Tobu Railway's direct limited express trains, including the Nikko, Kinugawa, and Spacia Kinugawa, as well as the temporary Super View Odoriko train that starts and ends at Omiya Station, began stopping at the station, and a commemorative group temporary train, the Shonan-Shinjuku Line Urawa Station Stop Commemoration train, was operated using the 253 series between Urawa Station and Atami Station.
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駅周辺高架化工事完了に伴い、東北貨物線にホームを新設。湘南新宿ラインと東武鉄道直通特急「日光」・「きぬがわ」・「スペーシアきぬがわ」、また大宮駅始発・終着で運転される臨時「スーパービュー踊り子」が停車となる。また同日にはこれを記念して浦和駅 - 熱海駅間に団体臨時列車「湘南新宿ライン浦和駅停車記念号」が253系を用いて運転された。高架下では幅員25m・長さ約50mの東西自由通路が開通し、東西にあった改札が駅中央に集約されたほか、幅員約4mの仲町地下道が平面化され10mに拡幅された。さらに東西自由通路が南北2か所に新設され、3か所の東西自由通路が開通した。駅南側で鉄道と交差する埼玉県道さいたま草加線（都市計画道路田島大牧線）も高架より東側の幅員が25mに拡幅された。
Prior to the 130th anniversary of its opening, a special charter train called the "Urawa Station 130th Anniversary Train" will operate between Urawa Station and Yokokawa Station using the 485 series Joyful Train NO.DO.KA.
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開業130周年を前に、浦和駅 - 横川駅間に団体臨時列車「浦和駅開業130周年記念号」が485系ジョイフルトレインNO.DO.KA.を使用して運転される。
The 130th anniversary of the opening is commemorated, with commemorative entry tickets for Urawa Station being issued.
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開業130周年を迎え、浦和駅の記念入場券等が発行される。
The Higashi-guchi Station Front Traffic Plaza was completed.
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東口駅前交通広場の整備が完了。
The elevated commercial facility "Atre Urawa" (South Area and North Area) under the west exit opened.
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西口高架下商業施設「アトレ浦和」（South Area・North Area）が開業。
JR East introduced its "Eco-Station" initiative, which incorporates energy-saving and renewable energy technologies, to Urawa Station, the first in the prefecture, and installed an energy management system, a first for a railway station in Japan, with plans to also install solar panels.
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JR東日本が進める省エネルギーや再生可能エネルギーなどの環境保全技術を駅に導入する取り組み「エコステ」を県内初めて浦和駅に導入。国内の鉄道駅で初めてエネルギーマネジメントシステムを導入する 。同時に太陽光発電パネルなども設置する予定である。
The use of platform doors began on the Keihin-Tohoku Line platforms.
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京浜東北線ホームでホームドアの使用を開始。
The west entrance station building section "Urawa Atre West Area" opened, and the underground passageway "Urawa Station Nakano-shima Underground Passageway" to the Isetan Urawa store was completed.
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西口駅ビル部分「浦和アトレ West Area」が開業。伊勢丹浦和店方面への地下通路「浦和駅中ノ島地下通路」が完成。
In 2019, the operation of View Plaza was terminated.
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（令和元年）：びゅうプラザの営業を終了。
Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
タケカワユキヒデ作曲。2003年4月1日のさいたま市の政令指定都市移行を記念して作られた。かつて浦和駅、さいたま新都心駅では短い編曲のメロディも使用されていた。
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