Yoyogi Station (代々木駅) is an elevated station in Shibuya, Tokyo. East Japan Railway Company runs it on the Yamanote Line and the Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local). The Toei Oedo Line also has a station here. It opened on 23 September 1906.
History
Yoyogi Station (代々木駅) opened on 23 September 1906 as a Kobu Railway station. Before that, rail track was laid near the present station in March 1885, when the Japan Railway opened a single track between Shinagawa and Akabane. In September 1894 the Imperial Japanese Army opened a military line between Shinjuku and the Aoyama military stop. In October 1894 the Kobu Railway opened between Shinjuku and Ushigome. On 30 December 1895 the Kobu Railway's Shinjuku to Iidamachi section was made double track. On 21 August 1904 the Iidamachi to Nakano section was electrified. In 1905 the Japan Railway's Shinagawa line was made double track between Shibuya and Shinjuku. At first the station was only on the line that later became the Chuo Line, and it had elevated platforms facing each other.
On 1 October 1906 the Kobu Railway was nationalised under the Railway Nationalisation Act. On 12 October 1909 the station became part of the Chuo East Line, later the Chuo Line. On 16 December 1909 the Shinagawa line was renamed the Yamanote Line, and Yamanote trains began stopping here, from a ground-level platform near the present Yamanote Freight Line. In September 1923 the nearly finished new station building was slightly damaged in the Great Kanto Earthquake. On 5 December 1924 the Yamanote Freight Line opened between Harajuku and Shin-Okubo, and the Yamanote and Chuo platforms moved to their present elevated site, with three faces and four tracks. In April 1925 a passing line for down Chuo trains was completed between Yoyogi and Shinjuku, and transfers at Shinjuku were separated by direction. In November 1925 the Yamanote Line began loop operation.
On 7 February 1927 a temporary stop between Yoyogi and Shinjuku Gyoen opened for the state funeral of the Taisho Emperor at Shinjuku Gyoen. It ran until 9 February. On 1 March 1927 the section between Yoyogi and Shinanomachi was made quadruple track. On 1 December 1958 an underground passage for transfers opened on the Shinjuku side. On 1 July 1965 baggage handling ended. On 1 July 1976 the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened. On 1 April 1987, when national railways were split up, the station became a JR East station on the Chuo Line. On 15 December 1990 automatic ticket gates were installed on the west side.
On 20 April 2000 the Toei Oedo Line opened between Shinjuku and Kokuritsu-kyogijo, and its Yoyogi station opened at the same time. JR East rebuilt the west station building, extended the transfer passage toward Shinjuku, and built a new north building. Suica could be used at JR East from 18 November 2001. On 30 May 2002 a fire broke out inside the JR station. The Yamanote Line stopped across its whole length, and trains already running made emergency stops. PASMO could be used on the Toei subway from 18 March 2007.
On 14 November 2014 the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed. On 24 October 2015 platform doors came into use on platforms 1 and 2, the Yamanote Line platforms. On 7 July 2020 platform doors came into use on platforms 3 and 4, the Chuo and Sobu local platforms. On 1 October 2025 JR East started its Eki-net Q Ticket service.
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