Tamachi Railway Station

Tamachi Railway Station
Tamachi Station North Exit (Mita exit)
Data
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	4th
abbreviation	チ タ (Chi-Ta)
opening	December 16, 1909
location
City / municipality	Minato
prefecture	Tokyo
Country	Japan
Coordinates	35 ° 38 '45 "  N , 139 ° 44' 51"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 38 '45 "  N , 139 ° 44' 51"  E
Railway lines
JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku Line Yamanote line
List of train stations in Japan

The Tamachi Station ( Jap. 田町駅 , Tamachi-eki ) is located in Minato in Tokyo , Japan .

history

The station was opened on December 16, 1909 by the Japanese State Railways as a passenger station. On June 21, 1968, the nearby Mita station of the Asakusa line and Mita line operated by the Toei subway was opened. After the privatization of the state railway, the station became the property of JR Higashi-Nihon on April 1, 1987 .

Type of construction and tracks

The most common design of the station is a through station. It has a total of four platform tracks, which approach two central platforms and are served by the Keihin-Tōhoku line and Yamanote line . The platforms are not approached according to the line they belong to, but according to the direction of travel. The Shinkansen lines run south and east directly to the south of the platform tracks .

1	▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line	Tokyo • Ueno • Ōmiya
2	▉  Yamanote Line	Tokyo • Akihabara • Ueno
3	▉  Yamanote Line	Shinagawa • Ebisu • Shibuya
4th	▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line	Shinagawa • Kawasaki • Yokohama

Lines

The colors used in the table below correspond to the color codes of the lines assigned by JR East.

←	Lines			→
Hamamatsucho		Keihin Tōhoku Line, JR East		Shinagawa
Hamamatsucho		Yamanote Line JR East		Shinagawa

Surroundings

Near the station is Mita Station on the Asakusa and Mita subway lines, among others. There are also various diplomatic representations near the train station, including the embassies of Botswana , Italy , Kuwait , Mozambique , Papua New Guinea and Hungary . The Mita campus of Keiō University and the headquarters of various companies including Mitsubishi Motors and NEC are also located in the vicinity.

use

In 2014, the station was used by an average of 143,526 passengers per day, making it 18th out of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014.

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ Passengers boarding in Tamachi. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
2. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/same/index.html Source: JR East, rank 18

Web links

• Official JR East website for the station