The Totsuka Station (, ) is an interchange passenger railway station located in Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Yokohama City Transportation Bureau.
Lines
JR Totsuka Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line, Yokosuka Line and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and is 40.9 kilometers from . The underground Blue Line station is 7.4 kilometers from the terminus of the subway line at .
Station layout
JR Totsuka Station is a ground level station with two island platforms serving four tracks, with an additional set of freight tracks on the west side. The platforms are connected to the station's two gates upstairs (over the tracks) and downstairs (underground). The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The Yokohama Subway station, connected with the JR underground concourse, has one underground island platform.
JR East platforms
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File:JR_Totsuka_Station_Upper-Level_Gates.jpg|Ticket gates
File:JR_Totsuka_Station_Platform_1・2.jpg|Platforms 1 and 2
File:JR_Totsuka_Station_Platform_3・4.jpg|Platforms 3 and 4
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Yokohama Municipal Subway platforms
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File:Blue line - Totsuka station 2024 May 23 various 15 29 54 037000.jpeg|Ticket gates
File:Yokohama-municipal-subway-B06-Totsuka-station-platform.jpg|Platform
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History
JR East
thumb|Totsuka Station in Meiji or Taishō period
thumb|Totsuka Station, circa 1934
Totsuka Station was opened on July 11, 1887, as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the predecessor to the post-war Japanese National Railways (JNR). The station building was originally on the west side of the station. The east gate was added in 1937. The current building over the tracks was completed on March 26, 1969.
On March 15, 1930, when Yokosuka Line trains were replaced by electric multiple units, all Tokaido Line trains ceased to stop at Totsuka Station.
Before the Tokaido Line and Yokosuka Line were separated and the station became a junction of the two lines on October 1, 1980, the two lines used the same tracks, but only Yokosuka Line trains stopped at Totsuka Station. The current platforms 1 and 2 did not exist, and the platform 1 (now platform 3) served the Tokyo-bound Yokosuka Line, while line 2 (now line 4) served the away-from-Tokyo direction. Additionally, the current freight lines did not exist, with the old freight lines located where the current platforms 1 and 2 are. From March 1973 when one island platform was added, there were two island platforms, with platform 2 serving the Tokyo-bound trains, and platform 3 serving the other direction. All freight operations were discontinued from May 1970. The bus terminal is now called the Second Bus Center and is distinguished from the larger Bus Center beside the Totsukana building on the same side of the station.
With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East.
Accidents
At 05:42 on December 15, 1923, local passenger train No. 21 to collided with the locomotive and a wagon of freight train No. 603, which was blocking the main line. Two locomotives and two wagons were overturned. As a result, the driver of train No. 603 was killed instantly and three passengers were slightly injured. The cause of the accident was a signalman's carelessness according to the official record of the railway.
At 09:52 on July 27, 1939, about 500 workers of a nearby Nippon Kōgaku factory entered the track near the station to see off a colleague. The semi-express train No. 221 to hit some of them, killing eight and injuring seven.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 112,598 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). In fiscal 2019, the Yokohama Municipal Subway station was used by an average of 44,137 passengers per day (boarding passengers only), making it the second busiest station on the Blue Line (after Yokohama)
The daily passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Fiscal year !! JR East !! Blue Line !!
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| 2005|| 101,458 || 37,020 ||
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| 2010 || 105,662 ||41,314 ||
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| 2015 || 110,797 || 44,016 ||
|-
|}
See also
- List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
- JR Totsuka Station
- Yokohama Subway Totsuka Station