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is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 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

Yokosuka Station is served by the Yokosuka Line. It is located 15.9 km from ÅŒfuna Station, and 65.3 km from the Tokyo Station.


Station layout

The station consists of a
bay platform In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines. It is normal for bay platforms to be shorter than their associated through platforms. Overview Bay and islan ...
and a side platform serving three tracks. Platform 1, formerly used for freight operations, is currently not in use. Platform 2 is used for trains which originate or terminate at Yokosuka, and Platform 3 is for bi-directional traffic. The station has a '' Midori no Madoguchi'' staffed ticket office.


Platforms


History

Yokosuka Station opened on June 16, 1889 as the initial terminal station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) spur line from ÅŒfuna to serve the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and related Imperial Japanese Navy facilities at Yokosuka. This spur line was renamed the Yokosuka Line on October 12, 1909. The present station building, the third building on this site was completed in April, 1940 and the line extended past Yokosuka to Kurihama Station in 1944. Freight operations were discontinued from February 1, 1984. The station came under the management of JR East upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.


Station layout

Yokosuka station consists of bay platforms and a side platform serving three tracks. Track 1, formerly used for freight operations, is currently not in use. Track 2 is used for trains which originate or terminate at Yokosuka, and Track 3 is for bi-directional traffic.


Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 4,845 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.


Surrounding area

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See also

* List of railway stations in Japan


References


External links


JR East Station information
(JR East) {{Yokosuka Line Sobu Line (Rapid) Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889 Yokosuka Line Railway stations in Yokosuka, Kanagawa