Shinagawa Railway Station

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Shinagawa ( 品 川 )
Shinagawa Station -01.jpg
Exterior view of the station (May 2011)
Data
Location in the network Junction station
Design Separation station
Platform tracks 15 ( JR East )
4 ( JR Central )
3 ( Keikyū )
abbreviation JT03 / JO17 / JK20 / JY25 / KK01
opening June 12, 1872
location
City / municipality Minato
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 37 '43 "  N , 139 ° 44' 24"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 37 '43 "  N , 139 ° 44' 24"  E
Height ( SO ) 3  m  TP
Railway lines

JR Central

JR East

Keikyu

List of train stations in Japan
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The Shinagawa Station ( Jap. 品川駅 , Shinagawa-eki ) is a station on the Japanese island of Honshu . Despite its name, it is not in the district of Shinagawa in Tokyo , but in the north adjoining district of Minato . It is operated jointly by the railway companies JR Central , JR East and Keikyū . Shinagawa is an important transfer hub: High-speed trains stop here on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen , and various routes lead from here to the Miura Peninsula , the Izu Peninsula and the Tōkai region . From 2027 Shinagawa will be the eastern starting point of the Chūō-Shinkansen maglev train to Nagoya .

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A Shinkansen leaves Shinagawa

Shinagawa is one of the most important railway hubs in the capital Tokyo. This is where the lines of three railway companies meet: the Tōkaidō Shinkansen from JR Central , the Tōkaidō Main Line , the Keihin-Tōhoku Line , the Yamanote Line and the Yokosuka Line from JR East and the Keikyū Main Line from Keikyū . Shinagawa is served by all Shinkansen trains on the Tōkaidō-Shinkansen high-speed line, the most important rail line for passenger transport in Japan . This applies to the types of trains Kodama , Hikari and Nozomi , which differ in the number of intermediate stations they serve. There are eight to eleven connections in each direction every hour. The eastern terminus is Tokyo station in all cases , the western terminus are Nagoya , Shin-Osaka , Okayama , Hiroshima or Hakata .

The Tōkaidō main line is mainly used for accelerated commuter traffic over medium distances. Two different express trains run at frequent intervals , the Rapid Acty ( 快速 ア ク テ ィKais , Kaisoku akutī ) and the Commuter Rapid ( 通勤 快速 , Tsūkin Kaisoku ) 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 commuter trains whose terminal was formerly the Tokyo Station, run since 2015 further to the Ueno Tokyo-line , a viaduct route across the tracks of the high-speed line Tōhoku Shinkansen to Ueno Station . They are thereby linked to the Utsunomiya Line , the Jōban Line and the Takasaki Line in the northern part of the metropolitan area.

Shinagawa is the nominal starting point of the Yamanote Line, which circles downtown Tokyo and is one of the most heavily used railroads in the world. Local trains run on it in both directions every two to four minutes. The Keihin-Tōhoku line and the Yokosuka line for the most part run parallel to the Tōkaidō main line, cover local traffic and have their own tracks. The former connects Ōmiya with Yokohama , the latter is linked to the Sōbu high-speed train line starting in Chiba at Tokyo Station and leads via Yokohama to Kurihama . An important train connection is the Narita Express , which connects Shinagawa on the one hand with Narita Airport and on the other with Ōmiya, Takao and Ōfuna .

The local and express trains on the Keikyū main line connect Shinagawa in a southerly direction with Haneda Airport , Yokohama, Uraga , Misakiguchi and Zushi-Hayama . Shinagawa is not directly connected to the Tokyo subway , but there is a connection to the Asakusa line in the neighboring Sengakuji station to the north . This in turn is linked in Oshiage with the route network of Keisei Dentetsu , which enables continuous connections between the airports of Haneda and Narita, among others.

investment

Shinagawa is a separation station on the border between the Takanawa and Konan districts, both of which are part of Tokyo's Minato District . The border with the eponymous district Shinagawa runs around 300 meters further south. On the west side (in Takanawa) there are several large hotels and the WING Takanawa shopping center . On the east side (in Konan) there was once a large area with industrial buildings and warehouses, which was replaced by a district with numerous high-rise office buildings from the early 1990s as part of an urban development project. These include the headquarters of JR Central, Nikon and Sony ; The Tokyo Oceanographic University is also located here.

View of the main hall
Shinkansen platforms
Keikyu platforms

The facility with a total of 22 tracks is located in a wide, low cut and is oriented from north to south. It consists of three structurally interconnected but operationally separate parts. To the west is the Keikyū station, in the middle that of JR East and to the east the Shinkansen station of JR Central . The main hall extends above the platforms in an east-west direction over the entire width of the station. There is the ecute Shinagawa shopping center , which is owned by a JR East subsidiary and has more than 80 stores. The station part of JR Central is offset slightly to the north.

The bus station in the eastern forecourt is served by more than two dozen lines from Toei Bus , Fuji Express , Keihin Express , Tokyo Airport Transportation and Tōkyū Bus , including several express buses. Another ten lines stop in front of the western exit. The Shinagawa bus station for long-distance bus services is around 400 meters to the north .

In the 2018 fiscal year, an average of 707,638 passengers used the station every day. Of these, 383,442 were in JR East, 288,199 in Keikyū and 36,000 in JR Central. In relation to the JR East network, Shinagawa is the fifth most used of all train stations.

Tracks

JR East
1 ▉  Yamanote Line Shimbashi • Tokyo • Ueno • Komagome
2 ▉  Yamanote Line Meguro • Shibuya • Shinjuku • Ikebukuro
3 ▉  - currently out of service (2020)
4th ▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line Tokyo • Ueno • Akabane • Ōmiya
5 ▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line Kamata • Kawasaki • Yokohama • Ōfuna
6/7 ▉  Ueno-Tokyo Line Tokyo • Ueno • Ōmiya • Utsunomiya • Takasaki
8th ▉  - temporary platform
9 ▉  Jōban line Tokyo • Ueno • Toride • Hitachi • Iwaki
10/11 ▉  Jōban line Tokyo • Ueno • Toride • Tsuchiura • Takahagi
11/12 ▉  Main Tōkaidō line Yokohama • Odawara • Atami • Itō
13/14 ▉  Sōbu rapid transit line Funabashi • Chiba • Narita Airport ( Narita Express )
14/15 ▉  Yokosuka line Ōfuna • Kamakura • Kurihama
JR Central
21/22 ▉  Tōkaidō Shinkansen Tokyo
23/24 ▉  Tōkaidō Shinkansen Shizuoka • Toyohashi • Nagoya • Kyoto • Shin-Osaka
Keikyu
1 ▉  Keikyū main line Haneda Airport • Yokohama • Misakiguchi
2 ▉  Keikyū main line Shimbashi • Asakusa • Narita Airport
3 ▉  Keikyū main line Yokohama • Zushi-Hayama • Uraga

history

Shinagawa Railway Station in the early 1870s
The train station around 1897

Shinagawa is the oldest train station in Japan and still stands in its original location, although nothing of the original system has survived. Work on the first station building , a single-storey western-style structure, began on September 10, 1871 and was completed on January 20, 1872; the cost was 5472 ryō . Due to construction delays, the first part of the Tōkaidō main line (Japan's first railway line) had to be opened in two stages. On June 12, 1872, rail operations were provisionally started between Shinagawa and Yokohama (now Sakuragichō ). Emperor Meiji officially opened the railway line on October 14, 1872, along with the missing section from Shinagawa to Shimbashi . The route then went directly to the Tokyo Bay along the coast today is a result of extensive land reclamation over half a kilometer to the east.

On March 1, 1885, the private railway company Nippon Tetsudō took the first section of today's Yamanote line into operation, which led from Shinagawa via Shibuya and Shinjuku to Akabane . In contrast to today, it was not used for local public transport, but primarily as a connection to the Tōhoku main line . The state railway administration introduced cargo handling on April 1, 1898 and nationalized the Nippon Tetsudō on November 1, 1906. The inclusion of new routes made it necessary to rebuild and expand the station several times. So on December 20, 1914, the state railway took the Keihin Line (today's Keihin-Tōhoku Line ) between the new Tokyo Central Station and Yokohama into operation. Since May 8, 1904, the Keikyū main line of the Keikyū railway company had its starting point a few hundred meters south of the station and shared the stop with the Tokyo tram . Since the agreement on connecting trains had not been renewed on August 11, 1924, Keikyū relocated the Tokyo terminus on March 11, 1925, first to the Takanawa stop on the station forecourt and on April 1, 1933 to Shinagawa station itself.

Air raids by the United States Army Air Forces caused severe damage to the station on May 24, 1945, but operations were barely maintained. On October 1, 1964, the Japanese State Railways began handling freight with containers . The Keihin-Tōhoku Line was on 21 June 1968 by Shinagawa by Sengakuji prolonged, whereby a by binding to the Asakusa Line of the Tokyo subway was built. From October 1, 1976 trains on the Sōbu rapid transit line to Shinagawa; four years later there was a merger with the Yokosuka line , which also enabled connections without changing trains. 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 . Since April 1, 1993 it has been possible to take Keikyū trains from Shinagawa to Haneda Airport . In turn, JR Freight abandoned cargo handling on December 3, 1994. With the completion of the Rainbow Road ( レ イ ン ボ ー ロ ー ド ) on November 1, 1998, it was now possible to cross the station from the east to the west side without having to buy a platform ticket.

The state railway strove in the 1980s to expand Shinagawa into a Shinkansen station. Her successor, JR Central , who has been responsible for operating the Tōkaidō-Shinkansen high-speed line since privatization , continued the project. She wanted to acquire the required land at the book value calculated by the state railways. The owner JR East, however, demanded the significantly higher market value . After the bubble economy burst , the market value dropped considerably and JR Central agreed. Construction work began on May 26, 1997 and the new section of the station went into operation on October 1, 2003. The capital received a second stop on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which contributed significantly to the relief of the Tokyo terminus. In November 2018, construction work began on the underground terminus of the Chūō-Shinkansen maglev train . It is scheduled to open in 2027 and will one day connect Shinagawa with Nagoya . The new station will be 40 meters below the surface and will have four tracks on two central platforms.

Adjacent train stations

←
 Lines
→
Tokyo Shinkansen line Tōkaidō Shinkansen
JR Central 		Shin-Yokohama
Shimbashi Tōkaidō Line Main Tōkaidō Line,
JR East 		Kawasaki
Takanawa Gateway Keihin-Tōhoku Line Keihin Tōhoku Line,
JR East 		Ōimachi
Takanawa Gateway Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East 		Ōsaki
Shimbashi Sōbu-Yokosuka Line Yokosuka Line,
JR East 		Nishi-Ōi
Sengakuji Main line Keikyū main line
Keikyū 		Kita-Shinagawa

Web links

Commons : Shinagawa Train Station  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

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