is a railway freight terminal operated by

Japan Freight Railway Company , or , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide throughout Japan. Its headquarters are in Shibuya, Tokyo near Shinjuku Station. The Japan Railways Group was fou ...

(JR Freight) located in the Yashio district of

Shinagawa, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies. , the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total a ...

, east of Omori and north of

Haneda Airport , officially , and sometimes called as Tokyo Haneda Airport or Haneda International Airport , is one of two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the other one being Narita International Airport (NRT). It serves as the primary ...

. It is the largest rail freight terminal in Japan and principally handles freight traffic to and from western Japan via 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 ...

. A number of companies operate dedicated

logistics Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...

facilities at the station, including Yamato Transport, Sagawa Express, Nippon Express, and

Kintetsu World Express , or KWE, is a major Japanese freight forwarding company. It is a subsidiary of the Japanese railway holding company Kintetsu Group Holdings (''近鉄グループホールディングス株式会社 Kintetsu gurūpu hōrudeingusu kabushiki gaish ...

. The terminal is adjacent to the

Tōkaidō Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed rail line that is part of the nationwide Shinkansen network. Along with the Sanyo Shinkansen, it forms a continuous high-speed railway through the Taiheiyō Belt, also known as the Tokaido corridor. Opened in 1964, ...

Tokyo Depot. The closest passenger station is Ryūtsū Center Station on the

Tokyo Monorail The , officially the , is a straddle-beam, Alweg-type monorail line in Tokyo, Japan. It is an airport rail link that connects Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Tokyo's Ōta, Shinagawa, and Minato wards. The line serves 11 stations betwe ...

. The branch line on which the terminal is situated also originally extended from Tokyo Freight Terminal up to the

Shiodome Freight Terminal was a freight terminal of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The freight terminal was built on the site of the original which served as the first railway terminal of Tokyo between 1872 and 1914. History Shimbashi Stat ...

(the site of the original

Shimbashi Station is a major interchange railway station in Tokyo's Minato, Tokyo, Minato Ward, located centrally and a 10-minute walk from the Ginza shopping district, directly south of Tokyo station. Station layout JR East The JR East station consists of thre ...

) until its closure in 1986. *Latitude and longitude of Tokyo Freight Terminal Latitude: 35° 35' 26.99" N Longitude: 139° 45' 16.79" E *GPS Coordinates of Tokyo Freight Terminal''

Gallery

File:Tokyo freight terminal main building 20101130.jpg, Main JR Freight office building File:Tokyo freight terminal gate.JPG, Road entrance

History

Tokyo Freight Terminal opened on 1 October 197326 September 1973 日本国有鉄道公示第157号.The station was absorbed into the JR Freight network upon the

privatization Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

of JNR on 1 April 1987.

Surrounding area

Japan Freight Railway , or , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide throughout Japan. Its headquarters are in Shibuya, Tokyo near Shinjuku Station. The Japan Railways Group was f ...

(JR Freight) Central Training Center * Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) Tokyo Alternate inspection vehicle station *

Rinkai Line The is a railway line in Tokyo, Japan. It is the only line operated by the third-sector company Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit. It connects central Tokyo to the artificial islands of Aomi and Odaiba. The line is served by some trains on t ...

Torin Vehicle Station *

Ryutsu Center Station

References

External links

{{Tōkaidō Freight Line Railway stations in Tokyo Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company Tōkaidō Main Line Railway freight terminals in Japan Railway stations in Japan opened in 1973