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29 Events
1885
3月1日
The Nippon Railway line between Shinagawa and Akabane opened as a single track, with railway tracks being laid near the current Yoyogi station.
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日本鉄道の品川 - 赤羽間が単線開業。現在の代々木駅付近に鉄道線路が敷設される。
1894
9月23日
A military line of the Imperial Japanese Army was opened between Shinjuku Station and Aoyama Military Stop.
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大日本帝国陸軍の軍用線が新宿駅 - 青山軍用停車場間に開設。
1894
10月9日
The Kobu Railway line between Shinjuku and Ushigome opened.
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甲武鉄道新宿 - 牛込間が開業。
1895
12月30日
The Kobu Railway's Shinjuku - Iidamachi section was doubled-tracked.
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甲武鉄道の新宿 - 飯田町間が複線化。
1904
8月21日
The Kobu Railway's Iidamachi - Nakano section was electrified.
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甲武鉄道の飯田町 - 中野間が電化。
1905
The Nippon Railway Shinagawa Line was double-tracked between Shibuya and Shinjuku.
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日本鉄道品川線の渋谷 - 新宿間が複線化。
1906
9月23日
The station opened as a station on the Kobu Railway, with only a single relative platform on the high-altitude line that would later become the Chuo Main Line.
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甲武鉄道の駅として開業。当時は後に中央本線となる路線のみに駅があった（高架線の相対式ホーム）。
1906
10月1日
It was nationalized under the Railway Nationalization Act.
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鉄道国有法により国有化。
1909
10月12日
The line came under the ownership of the Central East Line, later known as the Central Main Line.
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線路名称制定により中央東線（後の中央本線）の所属となる。
1909
12月16日
The Shinagawa Line was renamed the Yamanote Line, and Yamanote Line trains began stopping at Yoyogi Station, which then had a ground-level side platform near the current Yamanote Freight Line.
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品川線が山手線と改称。山手線列車が代々木駅に停車開始。当時は現在の山手貨物線付近にホームが存在していた（地上線の相対式ホーム）。
1923
9月
The nearly completed new station building of Yoyogi Station suffered minor damage in the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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関東大震災でほぼ完成していた代々木駅の新駅舎に若干の被害が出る。
1924
12月5日
With the opening of the Yamanote Freight Line's Harajuku - Shinjuku section, the Yamanote Line and Chuo Line platforms were relocated to their current location, a 3-side 4-track elevated line.
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山手貨物線の原宿 - 新大久保開業に伴い、山手線・中央線のホームが現在地（高架線の3面4線）に移転。
1925
4月
A crossover track for down Chuo Line trains was completed between Yoyogi and Shinjuku, and transfers at Shinjuku Station were separated by direction.
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代々木 - 新宿間に中央線下りの乗り越し線完成。新宿駅の乗り換えが方面別に。
1925
11月
The Yamanote Line began circular operation.
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山手線が環状運転開始。
1927
2月7日
The funeral rites for the Taisho Emperor were held at Shinjuku Gyoen, and the Yoyogi - Shinjuku Gyoen temporary stop section was opened (until the 9th).
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新宿御苑で大正天皇の大喪の礼が執り行われ、代々木 - 新宿御苑仮停車場間が開業（9日まで）。
1927
3月1日
The section between Yoyogi Station and Shinanomachi Station was quadrupled.
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代々木駅 - 信濃町駅間が複々線化。
1958
12月1日
A underground transfer passageway exclusively for transfers on the Shinjuku side was completed and began operation.
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新宿寄りに乗り換え専用地下通路が完成し、使用を開始。
1965
7月1日
Cargo handling was abolished.
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荷物扱いを廃止。
1976
7月1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。
1987
4月1日
With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East), belonging to the Chuo Main Line.
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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（中央本線所属）となる。
1990
12月15日
Automatic ticket gates were installed at the west entrance.
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西口に自動改札機を設置。
2000
4月20日
The Toei Shinjuku station opened simultaneously with the opening of the Toei Oedo Line between Shinjuku Station and Kokuritsu Kyogijo Station, and to coincide with this opening, JR East rebuilt the west entrance station building and extended the underground passageway for transfers near Shinjuku to create a new north entrance station building.
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都営地下鉄大江戸線新宿駅 - 国立競技場駅間開通と同時に同局の駅が開業。この開業に合わせ、JR東日本は西口駅舎を改築し、新宿寄りの乗り換え専用地下通路を延伸して北口駅舎を新設した。
2001
11月18日
IC card "Suica" becomes available for use on JR East.
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JR東日本でICカード「Suica」の利用が可能となる。
2002
5月30日
A fire broke out within a JR station, causing the entire Yamanote Line to come to a halt and trains in operation to make emergency stops.
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JR駅構内で火災が発生。山手線が全線ストップし、走行していた列車も緊急停車した。
2007
3月18日
The use of the IC card "PASMO" becomes available on the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation.
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東京都交通局でICカード「PASMO」の利用が可能となる。
2014
11月14日
The Midori no Madoguchi service ended operations.
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みどりの窓口の営業を終了。
2015
10月24日
The use of platform doors began on platforms 1 and 2, the Yamanote Line platforms.
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1・2番線（山手線ホーム）でホームドアの使用を開始。
2020
7月7日
Platform doors began operating on platforms 3 and 4, the Central and Sobu Local Line platforms.
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3・4番線（中央・総武緩行線ホーム）でホームドアの使用を開始。
2025
10月1日
JR East started the Eki-net Q-Chike service.
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JR東日本でえきねっと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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PLATFORM LAYOUT (CHŪŌ LINE (RAPID))
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PLATFORM LAYOUT (CHŪŌ–SŌBU LINE (LOCAL))
3
Down
中野 · 三鷹
4
Up
千駄ケ谷 · 御茶ノ水 · 千葉
↕ Platforms 3, 4 serve this line
Transfers from this platform
→
Ōedo Line
Tokyo Metro
5 min
Moderate
→
Yamanote Line
JR-East
2 min
Easy
PLATFORM LAYOUT (ŌEDO LINE)
1
六本木 · 大門
2
都庁前 · 光が丘
↕ Platforms 1, 2 serve this line
Transfers from this platform
→
Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local)
JR-East
5 min
Moderate
→
Yamanote Line
JR-East
5 min
Moderate
PLATFORM LAYOUT (YAMANOTE LINE)
1
Down
新宿 · 池袋 · 上野
2
Up
原宿 · 渋谷 · 品川
↕ Platforms 1, 2 serve this line
Transfers from this platform
→
Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local)
JR-East
2 min
Easy
→
Ōedo Line
Tokyo Metro
5 min
Moderate
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What train lines connect at Yoyogi Station?
Yoyogi Station is served by Chūō Line (Rapid), Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local), Ōedo Line, Yamanote Line.