Yokohama Station (横浜駅) is in Nishi-ku, Yokohama. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) runs the main station. Keikyu, Sagami Railway and the Yokohama Municipal Subway also operate here. Lines served: Negishi Line, Tōkaidō Line, Yokosuka Line, Keihin–Tōhoku Line, Shōnan–Shinjuku Line, TY Tokyu Toyoko Line, Yokohama Blue Line, and Narita Express (N'EX).
History
Yokohama station first opened on 12 June 1872, as the end of the first railway from Shinagawa. Shinagawa and this station were among the first railway stations in Japan. The building was designed by the American architect R. P. Brunton and copied the design of Shimbashi station. On 11 July 1887 the line to Kōzu opened. Trains from Shimbashi had to reverse direction here, which was called a switchback. On 1 August 1898 a shortcut line opened that bypassed the station. Express trains then stopped at Hodogaya and Kanagawa instead. On 10 October 1901 Hiranuma station opened on the shortcut line. On 15 August 1915 a second Yokohama station opened near what is now Takashimachō subway station. The old station was renamed Sakuragichō. The shortcut line and Hiranuma station were closed.
On 1 September 1923 the Great Kantō Earthquake collapsed the station building. Sakuragichō station also burned. A temporary station building was used from 7 September, and by then Hiranuma had been completely filled in. On 18 May 1928 the Tokyo Yokohama Electric Railway (now the Tokyu Toyoko Line) opened. On 15 October 1928 Yokohama station moved to its present site, as the third station of that name. On 22 June 1929 the Keihin Electric Railway (now the Keikyu Main Line) opened a temporary section to this station. The full line opened on 5 February 1930.
On 27 December 1933 the Shinchu Railway (now the Sotetsu Main Line) extended its line to Yokohama. The west exit was then a gravel yard. On 29 May 1945 an air raid on Yokohama destroyed most of the station facilities. A wooden station building was completed at the west exit in 1948. On 2 April 1956 a new Sotetsu station building opened in the west. On 16 July 1959 Yokohama City trolleybuses began running into the west exit. They stopped on 31 March 1972. On 4 September 1976 the Yokohama Municipal Subway Line 3 (Blue Line) opened.
On 1 October 1980 Yokosuka Line trains began using a new platform, after the Tōkaidō and Yokosuka lines were separated. On 7 November 1980 a new east station building and an east-west free passage opened. On 14 March 1985 the Blue Line was extended to Shin-Yokohama, with Yokohama as a middle station. On 1 April 1987 the station became part of JR East. In 1999 the station was chosen as one of the Kantō region's selected stations. On 18 November 2001 Suica became usable here. On 30 January 2004 Tokyu Toyoko service between here and Sakuragichō ended with the last train. On 31 January 2004 the Tokyu Toyoko platform moved underground, and the east-west passage was renamed the Central Passage. On 1 February 2004 the Minatomirai Line opened, with through trains to the Tokyu Toyoko Line.
Platform doors came into use in stages. On 28 April 2007 the Blue Line platforms got them. On 7 March 2015 the Tokyu Toyoko and Minatomirai platforms did. On 19 September 2019 the first two Keikyu platforms got them, and on 13 November 2019 the Keihin-Tōhoku and Negishi platforms did. On 19 July 2019 the atrium of the JR Yokohama Tower opened for use. On 7 December 2019 an underground passage opened, linking the station's central passage to the Joinus underground area on the west side. In June 2020 several large buildings opened near the station, including CIAL Yokohama, NEWoMan Yokohama and the T-Joy Yokohama complex. On 27 June 2020 the JR East Hotel Metsu Yokohama opened in the Tsuruya-chō building. On 10 August 2020 the South Court waiting area and the Ekute Edition Yokohama shop opened. On 1 March 2022 an Ekitabi Concierge service opened. On 1 April 2024 Sotetsu added the sub-name Sotetsu Joinus-mae. On 23 November 2024 the Keikyu Evening Wing began stopping here for boarding only.
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