Ōmiya station
Ōmiya station | |
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West entrance of Omiya station
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abbreviation | オ オ ( OO ) |
opening | March 16, 1885 |
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City / municipality | Saitama |
prefecture | Saitama |
Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 35 ° 54 '23 " N , 139 ° 37' 26" E |
Railway lines | |
List of train stations in Japan |
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:
- JR East Tōhoku Shinkansen
- JR East Akita Shinkansen
- JR East Yamagata Shinkansen
- JR East Jōetsu Shinkansen
- JR East Nagano Shinkansen
- JR East Keihin-Tōhoku Line
- JR East Saikyō Line
- JR East Takasaki Line
- JR East Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line)
- JR East Kawagoe Line
- JR East Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
- Tobu Noda line
- Saitama Shin Toshi Kōtsū New Shuttle ( Ina Line )
Adjacent train stations
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Ueno |
Tōhoku Shinkansen JR East |
Oyama | ||
Ueno |
Jōetsu-Shinkansen JR East |
Kumagaya | ||
Ueno |
Nagano Shinkansen JR East |
Kumagaya | ||
Saitama Shintoshin |
Keihin Tōhoku Line, JR East |
The End | ||
Urawa (express trains) Saitama-Shintoshin |
Utsunomiya JR East |
Toro | ||
Urawa (express trains) Saitama-Shintoshin |
Takasaki Line JR East |
Miyahara | ||
Urawa |
JR East Shonan-Shinjuku Line |
Toro (Tōhoku Main Line) Miyahara (Takasaki Line) |
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Musashi-Urawa ("commuter express train") Yono-Honmachi (express train) Kita-Yono |
Saikyō Line - and Kawagoe Lines JR East |
Nisshin | ||
Beginning |
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)
- Takashimaya
- Sogō
- Lumine
- Loft