is a junction passenger

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located in

Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 230,401 and a density of 9,650 persons per km2. The total area was 23.88 km2. Geography Kanagawa is located in ...

, Japan, operated by

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...

(JR East).

Lines

Higashi-Kanagawa Station is served by the Keihin-Tōhoku Line and

Yokohama Line The Yokohama Line ( ja, 横浜線, ) is a Japanese railway line of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) connecting Higashi-Kanagawa Station in Yokohama, Kanagawa and Hachiōji Station in Hachiōji, Tokyo. The line forms part of what JR Ea ...

. It is from the terminus of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line at , and forms the southern

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for the Yokohama Line.

Station layout

The station has two ground-level

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s serving four tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. Although the

Tōkaidō Main Line The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities. The high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen largely parallel ...

and

Yokosuka Line The is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The Yokosuka Line connects Tokyo Station with in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. Officially, the name Yokosuka Line is assigned to the 23.9 km segment between and ...

tracks run parallel to the station, neither line stops at Higashi-Kanagawa. The station has a ''

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'' staffed ticket office.

Platforms

From 15 September 2013, new

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was installed on the platforms. This lighting switches between light blue and light green to indicate whether individual departing trains are Keihin-Tohoku Line or Yokohama Line services. File:JR Higashi-Kanagawa Station - 2023 March 14 various 20 00 55 477000.jpeg, The west side of the station in March 2023 File:JR Higashi-Kanagawa Station - 2023 March 14 various 20 01 30 293000.jpeg, The ticket barriers in March 2023 File:JR Higashi-Kanagawa Station - 2023 March 14 various 20 02 00 703000.jpeg, The northbound platforms 3 and 4 in March 2023 File:The departures from Higashi-Kanagawa station in 2016.jpg, The down platforms in April 2016 showing the LED lighting

History

Higashi-Kanagawa Station opened on 23 September 1908, as a joint use station on the

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR)

(the predecessor to

JNR The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...

) and the privately owned Yokohama Railway Line (which connected

Yokohama Station is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth-busiest in the world as of 2013, serving 760 million passengers a year. Lines Yokohama Station is served by the ...

with

Hachiōji Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It opened on 11 August 1889.JR EasHachiōji Station informationRetrieved on 21 August 2008. Lines The ...

. A

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for freight operations to Umikanagawa Station (closed in 1959) was established on December 10, 1911. The Keihin Electric Train (the forerunner to the Keihin-Tōhoku Line) began operations from Higashi-Kanagawa from December 20, 1914. The Yokohama Railway Line was

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on 1 October 1917. With the

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of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East.

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was introduced on 20 August 2016 with Higashi-Kanagawa being assigned station number JK13 for the Keihin-Tohoku Line and JH13 for the Yokohoma Line.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 37,577 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

* Keikyū Higashi-kanagawa Station (connected by a pedestrian deck) * Kanagawa Ward Office

References

External links

Higashi-Kanagawa Station
(JR East Station Information) {{Yokohama Line Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1908 Keihin-Tōhoku Line Yokohama Line Tōkaidō Main Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Buildings and structures in Japan destroyed during World War II Railway stations in Yokohama