Ōsaki Station

Ōsaki Station 大崎駅
TWR 70-000 series EMU at Ōsaki Station, December 2002
Location
Prefecture	Tokyo (See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward	Shinagawa
Neighborhood etc.	1-21-4 Ōsaki
Postal Code	141-0032
(in Japanese)	東京都品川区大崎1-21-4
History
Year opened	1901
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (TWR)
Line(s)	Saikyō Line, Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, Yamanote Line Rinkai Line
Statistics	123,918 (JR East) 93,326 (TWR) passengers/day

Ōsaki Station (大崎駅, Ōsaki-eki^?) is a railway station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. It is one of the stations where trains on the Yamanote Line loop are put into and taken out of service. Therefore, it has four tracks (two in each direction) for that line so as not to interfere with continuing trains (trains go several rounds before being taken out).

History

The station opened on February 25, 1901 as a station of Nippon Railway, which was nationalized in 1906. After only serving the Yamanote Line for a century, on December 1, 2002 new platforms for the Saikyō Line, the Rinkai Line and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line opened on the west side of the station.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
  • Saikyō Line
  • Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
  • Yamanote Line
• Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (TWR)
  • Rinkai Line

Most Saikyō Line trains operate through to Shin-Kiba on the Rinkai Line, and vice versa to Ōmiya and Kawagoe.

Layout

The station has four island platforms serving eight tracks. Tracks 1–4 are for the Yamanote Line and 5–8 are for the Saikyō Line, the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and the Rinkai Line.

Track layout around Ōsaki Station^[1]

	Tōkaidō Main Line (Hinkaku Line) to Yokohama
Rinkai Line to Shin-Kiba		Yamanote Line to Ikebukuro
	Yamanote Line to Shinagawa Tōkaidō Main Line (Hinkaku Line) to Shinagawa

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Gotanda		Yamanote Line		Shinagawa
Ebisu		Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line through service)		Nishi-Ōi
Ebisu		Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (Takasaki Line - Tōkaidō Main Line through service)		Musashi-Kosugi
Ebisu (Saikyo Line)		Saikyō Line/Rinkai Line		Ōimachi (Rinkai Line)

References

1. ^ "Tanrakusen Misuterī 7" (in Japanese). Japan Railfan Magazine (Kōyūsha) (January 2004, No. 513): 21. 

See also

Media related to Ōsaki Station at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 35°37′10″N 139°43′43″E / 35.619375°N 139.728627°E / 35.619375; 139.728627