Coordinates: 35°37′41″N 139°44′21″E / 35.628157°N 139.739099°E / 35.628157; 139.739099

Shinagawa Station 品川駅
Exterior of Shinagawa Station
Location
Prefecture	Tokyo (See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward	Minato
Neighborhood etc.	3-chome, Takanawa
Postal Code	108-0074
(in Japanese)	東京都港区高輪３丁目
History
Opened	1872 (JR) 1924 (Keikyū)
Rail services
Operator(s)	East Japan Railway Company Central Japan Railway Company Keihin Electric Express Railway
Line(s)	JR East Tōkaidō Line Yokosuka Line Keihin-Tōhoku Line Yamanote Line JR Central Tōkaidō Shinkansen Keikyū Main Line
Major bus terminal(s) attached to the station

Shinagawa Station (品川駅, shinagawa-eki^?) is the first major station south of Tokyo Station and is a major interchange for trains operated by JR East, JR Central and Keikyū. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen and other trains to the Miura Peninsula, Izu Peninsula and the Tōkai region of Honshū pass through here. It is known as the southern gateway to Tokyo. Despite its name, it is not located in Shinagawa Ward but just to the north in Minato Ward.

This station is just south of a large yard complex consisting of Shinagawa Carriage Sidings, Shinagawa Locomotive Depot, and Tamachi Depot.

[edit] Lines

Shinagawa is served by the following lines:

• Keikyū
  • Keikyū Main Line

• JR Central
  • Tōkaidō Shinkansen

• JR East
  • Keihin-Tōhoku Line
  • Tōkaidō Main Line
  • Yamanote Line
  • Yokosuka Line

Shinagawa is also the planned terminal for JR Central's Chūō Shinkansen Maglev train, which is scheduled to begin service to Nagoya in the year 2025.

[edit] Station layout

The Keikyū line platforms are on the western side of the station at a higher level than the JR platforms. Some Keikyū line trains terminate at Shinagawa while others continue on to join the Toei Asakusa line at Sengakuji.

Keikyū platforms

The main JR station concourse is situated above the platforms running east-west across the breadth of the station. A freely traversable walkway, providing a valuable pedestrian link between divides the restricted station areas into two sections. The southerly section contains a number of shops and market-style stalls which form the "e-cute" station complex.

JR platforms

Note that cross-platform interchange between the Yamanote and Keihin-Tōhoku lines is only available from the next station, Tamachi.

The Shinkansen platforms were opened on October 1, 2003, to relieve congestion at the Tokyo terminus. Platforms are on the east side of the station.

Shinkansen platforms

[edit] Bus services

Services are provided by Toei Bus, Tōkyū Bus, Keihin Kyūkō Bus, Tokyo Limousine Bus and others.

[edit] West Entrance (Takanawa Entrance)

[edit] East entrance (Kōnan entrance)

[edit] History

Shinagawa is one of Japan's oldest stations, opened on June 12, 1872 (Gregorian calendar) when the service between Shinagawa and Yokohama provisionally started, four months before the inauguration of "Japan's first railway" between Shimbashi and Yokohama through Shinagawa on October 14, 1872. This line is a part of the Tōkaidō Main Line. Nothing remains of the original structure.

Later on March 1, 1885, the Yamanote Line started operation. Takanawa station of the Keikyu Line (then Keihin Railway Line) opened on March 11, 1924 across the street from Shinagawa station. Takanawa station was renamed Shinagawa station and moved to the current site on April 1, 1933.

The station concourse on the eastern side of the station (located above the platforms) was extensively redeveloped in 2003 in connection with the construction of the Shinkansen platforms and also to improve access to the new commercial development "Shinagawa Intercity" (品川インターシティ[1]).

[edit] Adjacent stations

[edit] See also

• Transportation in Greater Tokyo

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Shinagawa Station

• JR East station map (Japanese)
• Keikyū station map (Japanese)
• Shinagawa Intercity (Japanese)