is a junction passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

located in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Japan, operated by

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(JR East). It is located near Saitama City Office and the Saitama Prefectural Government Office.

Lines

Urawa Station is served by the

Tōhoku Main Line The Tōhoku Main Line ( ja, 東北本線, ) is a long railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line starts from Tokyo Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and passes through such cities as Saitama, Utsunomiya, Fukush ...

( Utsunomiya Line, Takasaki Line, Keihin-Tōhoku Line, and Shōnan-Shinjuku Lines. It is 6.1 kilometers from and 24.2 kilometers from .

Station layout

The station has three elevated

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular ...

s, serving six tracks, with the station building underneath. The station has a "

Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...

" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History

Urawa Station opened on 28 July 1883 as a station of ''Nippon Tetsudō'' (lit. Japan Railway) company, when this company opened the railway from Ueno Station to Kumagaya Station (part of today's Takasaki Line). At that time, there were only six stations along the route (, , Urawa, , , and ), so Urawa Station is one of the oldest stations of the Tōhoku Main Line, and is also the oldest in the present-day city of Saitama. Following eight years of construction, the station became fully elevated in March 2013, therefore allowing the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line to serve the station from 16 March 2013 onwards. In 2017, chest-height platform edge doors were installed on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line platforms (1 and 2), brought into use from 21 October 2017.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 95,865 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The daily passenger figures (boarding passengers only) in previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

* Saitama Prefectural Government Office * Saitama City Office * Isetan department store * Corso (department store located in front of Urawa Station west exit) * Parco Department Store * Urawa Royal Pines Hotel * Urawa Washington Hotel * *

References

External links

* {{Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Railway stations in Saitama Prefecture Tōhoku Main Line Takasaki Line Keihin-Tōhoku Line Utsunomiya Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Railway stations in Saitama (city) Railway stations in Japan opened in 1883