Tsurumi Station


Tsurumi Station is a railway station in Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Lines

Tsurumi Station is an interchange between the Keihin-Tōhoku Line and the Tsurumi Line, and is 52.0 km from the northern terminus of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line at Ōmiya Station.

Station layout

Tsurumi Station is an elevated station with one island platform for the Keihin-Tōhoku Line, and two opposed side platforms for the Tsurumi Line.
From the north side of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line platform are located, in order, The Tokaido Line passenger train lines in both directions, The Tokaido Line Tokyo-bound freight train tracks, three tracks for trains to stop at overnight, and the Tokaido Line freight train tracks for the direction from Tokyo. None of these have platforms.
Between the Keihin-Tōhoku Line and Tsurumi Line there is a ticket gate, which is a remnant of when the Tsurumi Line was operated by the separate Tsurumi Rinkō Tetsudō Kabushiki Gaisha.
There is a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office as well as automatic ticket gates. The Keihin-Tōhoku Line platforms are connected to the concourse by escalators and elevators.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Tsurumi Station was opened on November 15, 1872 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Tōkaidō Main Line, initially for passenger operations only. Freight services started on April 1, 1898. The Keihin Line began operations to Tsurumi from December 20, 1914. On December 23, 1934, the Tsurumi Rinkō Railway connected to Tsurumi Station. The station was the location of a major railway accident, the Tsurumi Accident on November 9, 1963. It was one of the five major post-war JNR accidents. Upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987 the station has been operated by JR East.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the station was used by an average of 78,272 passengers daily, making it the 56th-busiest station operated by JR East. The daily average passenger figures in previous years are as shown below.
Fiscal yearDaily average
200075,234
200576,197
201076,665
201176,445
201276,583
201378,272

Surrounding area