Tamachi Station (Tokyo)

Not to be confused with Tammachi Station.

35.645605°N 139.74770°E / 35.645605; 139.74770

JK22 JY27 Tamachi Station 田町駅
Main entrance of the station in 2020
General information
Location	Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	JY Yamanote Line JK Keihin–Tōhoku Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Above ground
Other information
Station code	JK22 JY27
History
Opened	16 December 1909; 115 years ago (1909-12-16)
Passengers
FY2023	119,356 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Takanawa Gateway TGWJY26 Next clockwise Yamanote Line Hamamatsuchō HMCJY28 Next counter-clockwise Takanawa Gateway TGWJK21 towards Yokohama Keihin–Tōhoku Line Rapid Local Hamamatsuchō HMCJK23 towards Ōmiya
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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.

Mita Station on the Asakusa and Mita 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.

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 to make a temporary stop with the same name in 1876. The stop was short-lived as it was abolished just a year^[1] later. 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]

Station layout

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).^[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.^[5]

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

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2023, the JR East station was used by an average of 119,356 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the twenty-fourth-busiest station operated by JR East.^[6]

The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	154,714[7]
2005	142,778[8]
2010	149,477[9]
2011	148,346[10]
2012	145,724[11]
2013	144,433[12]

See also

• Tokyo portal

• List of railway stations in Japan
• Tamachi