Hamamatsuchō Station

35.655230°N 139.757627°E / 35.655230; 139.757627

HMCJK23JY28 MO01 Hamamatsuchō Station 浜松町駅
Hamamatsucho Station
General information
Location	1-3-1 Kaigan District, Minato City, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Tokyo Monorail
Line(s)	JK Keihin–Tōhoku Line JY Yamanote Line MO Tokyo Monorail Haneda Airport Line
Construction
Structure type	Ground Level (Keihin-Tōhoku and Yamanote Lines) Elevated (Tokyo Monorail)
Other information
Station code	JK23 JY28 MO-01
History
Opened	16 December 1909; 114 years ago (16 December 1909)
Passengers
JR East, FY2013	155,784 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Tamachi JY27 Next clockwise Yamanote Line Shimbashi SMBJY29 Next counter-clockwise Tamachi JK22 towards Yokohama Keihin–Tōhoku Line Rapid Tokyo TYOJK26 towards Ōmiya Keihin–Tōhoku Line Local Shimbashi SMBJK24 towards Ōmiya Preceding station Tokyo Monorail Following station Terminus Haneda Airport Line Haneda Express Haneda Airport Terminal 3 MO08 towards Haneda Airport Terminal 2 Haneda Airport Line Rapid Local Tennōzu Isle MO02 towards Haneda Airport Terminal 2
Location Hamamatsuchō Station Location within Special wards of Tokyo Show map of Special wards of Tokyo Hamamatsuchō Station Hamamatsuchō Station (Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula) Show map of Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula Hamamatsuchō Station Hamamatsuchō Station (Tokyo) Show map of Tokyo Hamamatsuchō Station Hamamatsuchō Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Hamamatsuchō Station (浜松町駅, Hamamatsuchō-eki) is a railway station in Hamamatsuchō, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Tokyo Monorail.

Lines

Hamamatsuchō Station is served by two JR East lines: the circular Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tōhoku Line. All trains on these lines stop at Hamamatsuchō.

It is also the terminus of the Tokyo Monorail line to Haneda Airport. The official name of the monorail station is Monorail Hamamatsuchō Station (モノレール浜松町駅, Monorēru-Hamamatsuchō-eki).

Station layout

JR East

A Japanese variant of Manneken Pis on the station platform

The JR East station consists of two platforms serving four tracks, with cross-platform interchange in the direction of travel between the Yamanote line (tracks 2 and 3) and the Keihin-Tōhoku line (tracks 1 and 4).

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

Tokyo Monorail

The Tokyo Monorail platforms are located to the west of the JR station in a separate elevated structure. Two side platforms serve a single track, with one platform used for boarding passengers, and the other platform used for alighting passengers.

Japan's domestic airlines (JAL, ANA, Skymark Airlines, and Air Do) operate check in services for domestic flights from Haneda airport along with ticketing facilities just outside the main Monorail entrances.

• 
  Monorail Hamamatsucho's Central gate, June 2016
• 
  The Tokyo Monorail platforms, June 2016

Facilities

• Japan Airlines at one time operated a domestic flights only ticketing facility on the third floor of the station.^[1]

History

The JR station opened on December 16, 1909, as an intermediate station on the newly opened Shinagawa to Karasumori section of the Japanese National Railways.

The Tokyo Monorail station opened on September 17, 1964.^[2]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 155,784 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the sixteenth-busiest station operated by JR East.^[3] Over the same fiscal year, the Tokyo Monorail station was used by an average of 108,080 passengers daily (exiting and entering passengers), making it the busiest station operated by Tokyo Monorail.^[4]

The passenger figures for the JR East station (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	152,620[5]
2005	144,085[6]
2010	153,594[7]
2011	151,480[8]
2012	153,104[9]
2013	155,784[3]

Surrounding area

• Daimon Station, served by the Toei Ōedo Line and the Toei Asakusa Line, is within easy walking distance, although some route maps do not mark them as an interchange. The 1-minute walk is fully signed and easy to locate. When arriving on a train from south, train cars at the front of the train are closest to the exit to Daimon station.^[10]
• The station is partially under and directly connected to the World Trade Center (Tokyo).
• Acty Shiodome, the fourth tallest residential building in Japan is a 3-minute walk to the north.^[11]
• Hamarikyu Gardens - 1/2 mile north-east
• Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden - 1/8 mile east
• Shiodome City Center Shopping Mall - 10-minute walk^[12]
• Tsukiji Fish Market - 15-minute walk
• Hato Bus Tour terminal^[13]

See also

• Tokyo portal
• Trains portal

• List of railway stations in Japan
• Transport in Greater Tokyo

References

1. "JAL Group Offices Information." Japan Airlines. March 28, 2009. Retrieved on July 21, 2011. "3rd floor, Tokyo mono-rail Hamamatsu-cho Station, 2-4-12 Hamamatsu-Cho Minato-ku, 105-0013"
2. Terada, Hirokazu (January 19, 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 213. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.
3. 各駅の乗車人員 （2013年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on May 6, 2001. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
4. 会社概要 [Summary of Company] (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyo Monorail. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
5. 各駅の乗車人員 （2000年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on October 9, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
6. 各駅の乗車人員 （2005年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on October 9, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
7. 各駅の乗車人員 （2010年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
8. 各駅の乗車人員 （2011年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on October 8, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
9. 各駅の乗車人員 （2012年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
10. Go! Tokyo Plus App
11. "La Tour Shiodome". Brochure. D(2)0409-3000. Sumitomo Realty and Development Co., Ltd.
12. "Shiodome Center (English)". Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
13. Hato Bus Tours Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• JR East station information (in Japanese)
• JR East station diagram (in English)
• Tokyo Monorail station information (in Japanese)