Ōmiya station

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Ōmiya station
Omiya sta west.jpg
West entrance of Omiya station
Data
abbreviation ｵ ｵ ( OO )
opening March 16, 1885
location
City / municipality Saitama
prefecture Saitama
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 54 '23 "  N , 139 ° 37' 26"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 54 '23 "  N , 139 ° 37' 26"  E
Railway lines

JR

Tōbu

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East entrance of Omiya station

The Ōmiya Station ( Jap. 大宮駅 , Ōmiya-eki ) is located in Saitama in the same Saitama Prefecture . The station is a major rail hub in the Tokyo area and the busiest station in Saitama Prefecture. It is a transfer station from the Tokyo region to the Tōhoku and Hokuriku regions and the Niigata and Nagano prefectures .

Station division

The station has 22 tracks, of which tracks 1 to 11 on five island platforms on the ground floor belong to the JR East track network. Various regional trains and the Narita Express to the airport stop here .

Tracks 13 to 18 are located on three island platforms in an elevated position. Here, for example, the Shinkansen runs between Tokyo and Ueno, the Tohoku Shinkansen to Utsunomiya, the Yamagata Shinkansen, the Joetsu Shinkansen and the Akita Shinkansen.

Tracks 19 to 22 on two island platforms belong to the subway with the Saikyo line and the Kawagoe line. The Tobu platform for the Noda line is a head platform .

Lines

Ōmiya is served by the following lines:

Adjacent train stations

←
 Lines
→
Ueno Tōhoku Shinkansen Line Tōhoku Shinkansen
JR East 		Oyama
Ueno Jōetsu Shinkansen Line Jōetsu-Shinkansen
JR East 		Kumagaya
Ueno Nagano Shinkansen Line Nagano Shinkansen
JR East 		Kumagaya
Saitama Shintoshin Keihin-Tōhoku Line Keihin Tōhoku Line,
JR East 		The End
Urawa (express trains)
Saitama-Shintoshin 		Utsunomiya line Utsunomiya
JR East 		Toro
Urawa (express trains)
Saitama-Shintoshin 		Takasaki line Takasaki Line
JR East 		Miyahara
Urawa Shōnan-Shinjuku line JR East Shonan-Shinjuku Line
 Toro (Tōhoku Main Line)
Miyahara (Takasaki Line)
Musashi-Urawa ("commuter express train")
Yono-Honmachi (express train)
Kita-Yono 		Saikyō line Saikyō Line - and Kawagoe Lines
JR East 		Nisshin
Beginning Regional Noda Line
Tōbu Tetsudō 		Kita-Ōmiya

Bus transport

City buses, night buses and express buses pass through Ōmiya Station, including buses to Narita International Airport and Haneda Domestic Airport . Since buses to Haneda are often affected by traffic disruptions, it is safer to use the monorail from Tennozu Station or the Keihin Electric Express Railway from Shinagawa Station .

history

The station was opened on March 16, 1885 by the first private railway company in Japan, the Nippon Tetsudō ( 日本 鉄 道 , literally: "Japan Railway").

JR Freight , the rail freight company that was created after the privatization of the Japanese railways in 1987, and JR East maintain a depot at Ōmiya station, which began operations for the Japanese railways as early as 1894.

JR East will open a railway museum near the station in October 2007 , to which some of the exhibits previously exhibited in the transport museum will be moved.

Surroundings

Depāto (department store)

Web links

Commons : Ōmiya station  - collection of images, videos and audio files