Kawasaki train station
| Kawasaki ( 川 崎 ) | |
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 East side of the station (October 2011)
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | JT04 / JK16 / JN01 |
| opening | July 10, 1872 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Kawasaki |
| prefecture | Kanagawa |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 31 '53 " N , 139 ° 41' 49" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 3 m TP |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Kawasaki Train Station ( Japanese 川 崎 駅 , Kawasaki-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshū . It is located in the area of Kawasaki City in Kanagawa Prefecture and is an important interchange between several lines of the JR East Railway Company .
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Kanagawa is a major separation station on the Tōkaidō main line from Tokyo to Osaka , one of the country's main rail lines. The Keihin-Tōhoku line runs parallel to this . In addition, the Nambu line branches off here to Tachikawa , which crosses the entire length of the city of Kawasaki. All three lines belong to the JR East railway company .
The Tōkaidō main line is mainly used for accelerated commuter traffic over medium distances. There are two different express trains , the Rapid Acty ( 快速 ア ク テ ィ ー , Kaisoku akutī ) and the Commuter Rapid ( 通勤 快速 , Tsūkin Kaisoku ) from Tokyo to Atami and Odawara . In addition, there are the Shōnan Liner (express trains during peak traffic with reserved seats), tourist excursion trains and the Odoriko regional express train that runs between Tokyo and the Izu Peninsula . Most local trains, whose terminus used to be Tokyo Station, have been running on the Ueno-Tokyo Line to Ueno Station since 2015 . They are thereby linked to the Utsunomiya Line , the Jōban Line and the Takasaki Line in the northern part of the metropolitan area. The Keihin-Tōhoku Line covers local traffic, has its own tracks and connects Ōmiya with Yokohama . Local trains on the Nambu Line run six times an hour during the day and every two to four minutes during the morning rush hour. There is an additional express train every half hour between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The station is an important hub for local and regional bus traffic, with a total of three bus stations. The eastern one is served by three dozen lines of the Kawasaki City Transport Office and the Keikyū Bus and Rinkō Bus companies. Another 16 lines (mostly from Rinkō Bus ) depart from the western station forecourt. The third bus station takes the forecourt on the north side; ten lines of the traffic office and Tōkyū bus run here . Keikyū Kawasaki Station is located about 250 meters northeast of Kawasaki Station on the Keikyū Main Line , connected by an underground pedestrian passage.
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The station is on the border of the districts Ekimae-honchō (in the east) and Horikawachō (in the west), both of which belong to the Kawasaki-ku district and are dominated by high-rise office buildings. On the opposite side of the north bus station is the Lazona Kawasaki Plaza shopping center with 280 stores. The Atré Kawasaki shopping center with 240 stores, which is owned by a subsidiary of JR East and into which the eastern bus station is integrated, is attached to the east side of the station . The Keikyū main line, which is located on a viaduct, runs through the rear of Atré Kawasaki . Opposite the east entrance of the train station is the More’s department store , whose specialty is the shortest escalator in the world.
The facility is oriented from northeast to southwest and has six tracks, all of which are used for passenger traffic. They are located on three completely covered central platforms . A reception building in the form of a wide riding station spans the entire complex , which is accessed by stairs, elevators and escalators. The building contains a freely accessible pedestrian passage, with which it is possible to get from one end to the other without having to pass the platform barriers. In addition, there is a narrow pedestrian bridge to the west, accessible by stairs, at the southern end of the platforms.
In the 2018 fiscal year, an average of 214,601 passengers used the station every day.
Tracks
| 1 | ▉ Main Tōkaidō line | Yokohama • Fujisawa • Odawara • Atami |
| 2 | ▉ Main Tōkaidō line | Shinagawa • Tokyo • Ueno • Ōmiya |
| 3 | ▉ Keihin-Tōhoku line | Yokohama • Sakuragichō • Ōfuna |
| 4th | ▉ Keihin-Tōhoku line | Shinagawa • Tokyo • Ueno • Ōmiya |
| 5/6 | ▉ Nambu line | Noborito • Tachikawa |
history
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Kawasaki is one of the oldest train stations in Japan, even if nothing of the original system has survived. The opening took place on July 10, 1872, around four weeks after the country's first railway line between Tokyo ( Shimbashi ) and Yokohama ( Sakuragichō ) began operating. The section of the Tōkaidō main line was initially single-track and the Kawasaki station had the only switch and the first railway signals . A second track was added in 1879, on November 1 between Kawasaki and Ōmori and on November 14 between Kawasaki and Tsurumi . For the first quarter of a century, the station was used exclusively for passenger traffic, and freight traffic was added on April 1, 1898.
The Railway Office of the Cabinet (later the Ministry of Railways ) began electrical suburban traffic on the parallel Keihin Line on December 20, 1914 . On May 18, 1918, a freight branch line branching off from the Tōkaidō main line to the Hama-Kawasaki port station followed . The private railway company Nambu Tetsudō opened on March 9, 1927 the first section of the later Nambu line to Noborito ; this became state property on April 1, 1944. Exactly 15 years the Japanese State Railways took the new station building with shopping center into operation and from 1960 to 1980 the trains of the Yokosuka Line also stopped in Kawasaki. In contrast, the state railway closed the branch line to Hama-Kawasaki on October 1, 1973. For cost reasons, it gave up all cargo handling on September 1, 1980 and also checked baggage on November 1, 1986.
As part of the privatization of the state railway, the station passed into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 . This expanded the existing station building to today's equestrian station (opening on June 28, 1988). With the opening of the Tokyo-Ueno line on March 14, 2015, Kawasaki received direct connections to the north of the Tokyo metropolitan area for the first time.
Adjacent train stations
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| Shinagawa |
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| Kamata |
Keihin Tōhoku Line, JR East |
Tsurumi | ||
| Beginning |
JR East Nambu Line |
Shitte | ||
Web links
- JR East Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b JR 時刻表 2019 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2019). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2019.
- ^ Ueno Tokyo Line opens for service, helping commuters to the north. The Japan Times , March 15, 2015, accessed May 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Floor Guide. Atré Kawasaki, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 (Japanese).
- ^ Todd Wojnowski: World's Shortest Escalator. Japan Travel, March 5, 2013, accessed May 25, 2020 .
- ↑ 各 駅 の 乗車 人員. JR East , 2018, accessed May 25, 2020 (Japanese).
- ^ Dan Free: Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan . Turtle Publishing, Clarendon 2014, ISBN 978-4-8053-1290-2 , pp. 77 .
- ↑ a b c Kōichi Nakagawa: 京 浜 東北 線 へ の 歴 史 過程 . In: Tetsudō Pikutoriaru . No. 562 . Denkisha kenkyūkai, Chiyoda July 1992, p. 11 .
- ↑ Satoru Sone (Ed.): 週刊 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR . tape 38 . Asahi Shimbun shuppan, Tokyo 2010, p. 16 .