Yokohama Station
railway station and metro station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Yokohama Station (横浜駅, Yokohama-eki) is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth-busiest in the world as of 2013, serving 760 million passengers a year.
Lines
Yokohama Station is served by the following lines:
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
Tokaido Main Line (plus through service via the Ueno–Tokyo Line)
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Yokosuka Line
Yokohama Line
Keihin-Tohoku Line
Negishi Line
Shōnan limited express trains do not stop here. Sunrise Izumo and Sunrise Seto sleeper trains stop here for boarding and alighting passengers.
Keikyū
Keikyū Main Line
Morning Wing and Evening Wing trains pass this station.
Sagami Railway (Sotetsu)
Sotetsu Main Line
Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Toyoko Line
Yokohama Minatomirai Railway
Minatomirai Line
Yokohama Municipal Subway
Blue Line
(JR Central's Tokaido Shinkansen passes through Shin-Yokohama Station, not Yokohama Station.)
Station layout
Keikyu and JR East
The JR East and Keikyū platforms are located in the main above-ground portion of Yokohama Station. Keikyū's section consists of platforms 1 to 2, JR East operates platforms 3 to 10.
Keikyū introduced station numbering to its stations on 21 October 2010; Yokohama Station was assigned station number KK37.
Tokyu and Minatomirai
Tokyu Corporation and the Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company share the same underground station located in the 5th underground level of Yokohama Station, to the west of the JR platforms.
Yokohama Municipal Subway
The Yokohama Municipal Subway is located on the 3rd basement level, west of the main station.
“Yokohama Station” enters the record as railway station and metro station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yokohama, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q801658. Authority coordinates are 35.466, 139.623. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2010.
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