Tamachi Station (Tokyo)

Tamachi Station (田町駅, Tamachi-eki) is a railway station in the Tamachi neighborhood of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is served by the circular Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tōhoku Line. All trains stop at this station.

Not to be confused with Tammachi Station.

JK22 JY27 Tamachi Station 田町駅
The Mita entrance in January 2015
Location	Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	JY Yamanote Line JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line
History
Opened	1909
Traffic
Passengers (FY2013)	144,433 daily
Location
Tamachi Station Location within Special wards of Tokyo Show map of Special wards of Tokyo Tamachi Station Tamachi Station (Tokyo) Show map of Tokyo Tamachi Station Tamachi Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Mita Station on the Toei Asakusa Line and Toei Mita Line subway lines is within walking distance, although there is no physical connection and the stations are generally not marked as an interchange on route maps. Tamachi is the nearest JR station to Keio University's Mita campus and Temple University Japan's Mita and Azabu campuses.

Station layout

The station platforms in January 2015

The station consists of two island platforms providing cross-platform interchange in the direction of travel between the Yamanote Line (platforms 2 and 3) and the Keihin-Tōhoku Line (platforms 1 and 4). As this is the first cross-platform interchange following the intersection of both lines the platforms are comparatively busy.

Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in February 2013, entering operation in March.[1]

1	JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line	for Tokyo, Ueno, and Ōmiya
2	JY Yamanote Line	for Tokyo and Ueno
3	JY Yamanote Line	for Shinagawa and Shibuya
4	JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line	for Shinagawa, Yokohama, and Ōfuna

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Keihin-Tōhoku Line JK22
Takanawa Gateway TGWJK21		Rapid		Hamamatsuchō HMCJK23
Takanawa Gateway TGWJK21		Local		Hamamatsuchō HMCJK23
Yamanote Line JY27
Takanawa Gateway TGWJY26		-	Hamamatsuchō HMCJY28

History

The Tokaido Main Line opened in 1872 and passed through Tamachi, which was at the time still submerged under Tokyo Bay. The area to the west of the Tokaido Line was filled in by the end of the 19th century, and the east side filled in during the early 1900s. Tamachi Station opened on December 16, 1909 as an intermediate station on the newly opened Shinagawa-Karasumori section of the Yamanote Line, then operated by Japanese National Railways. It was the sixteenth stop to open on the Yamanote Line.[2]

The area surrounding the station was predominantly industrial until the 1970s, with several confectionery, electronics and machinery factories. New development shifted to commercial buildings beginning with the Morinaga Plaza Building in 1970. The west side of Tamachi underwent a major redevelopment from 1988, resulting in the current elevated deck and pedestrian bridge over the adjacent Dai-Ichi Keihin road.[3]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 144,433 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the seventeenth-busiest station operated by JR East.[4]

The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	154,714[5]
2005	142,778[6]
2010	149,477[7]
2011	148,346[8]
2012	145,724[9]
2013	144,433[4]

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan
• Tamachi

References

1. 田町駅で可動式ホーム柵設置 [Platform edge doors installed at Tamachi Station on Yamanote Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 7 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
2. "田町の歴史". TAMACHI REAL ESTATE Co.,Ltd. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
3. "田町駅西口・札の辻交差点周辺地区 まちづくりガイドライン" (PDF). Minato City. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
4. 各駅の乗車人員　（2013年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
5. 各駅の乗車人員　（2000年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
6. 各駅の乗車人員　（2005年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
7. 各駅の乗車人員　（2010年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
8. 各駅の乗車人員　（2011年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
9. 各駅の乗車人員　（2012年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 2 September 2014.

External links

• JR East station information (in Japanese)