Takashimachō Station (高島町駅, Takashimachō-eki) is a metro station located in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan operated by the Yokohama Municipal Subway’s Blue Line (Line 3). It is 21.6 kilometers from the terminal of the Blue Line at Shōnandai Station.

B19
Takashimachō Station

高島町駅
The logo of Yokohama Municipal Subway. Yokohama Municipal Subway station
Entrance No.1
General information
LocationNishi, Yokohama, Kanagawa
(横浜市西区花咲町7丁目41番地)
Japan
Operated byYokohama City Transportation Bureau
Line(s)Logo of the Blue Line of the Yokohama Municipal Subway. Blue Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Other information
Station codeB19
History
OpenedDecember 20, 1914; 109 years ago (December 20, 1914)
Passengers
20083,278 daily
Services
Preceding station The logo of Yokohama Municipal Subway. Yokohama Municipal Subway Following station
Sakuragichō
B18
towards Shonandai
Blue Line
Local
Yokohama
B20
towards Azamino
Location
Takashimachō Station is located in Yokohama
Takashimachō Station
Takashimachō Station
Location within Yokohama
Takashimachō Station is located in Kanagawa Prefecture
Takashimachō Station
Takashimachō Station
Takashimachō Station (Kanagawa Prefecture)
Takashimachō Station is located in Japan
Takashimachō Station
Takashimachō Station
Takashimachō Station (Japan)

Lines

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Station layout

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Takashimachō Station has a single island platform serving two tracks, located four stories underground.

Platforms

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1  Blue Line (Yokohama) Kannai, Totsuka, Shōnandai
2  Blue Line (Yokohama) Kannai, Yokohama, Shin-Yokohama, Azamino

History

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Takashimachō Station was originally opened as a station on the Keihin Line (now the Keihin-Tōhoku Line), the first electrified service between Tokyo and Yokohama, on 20 December 1914. The station was renamed Yokohama Station (横浜駅) when services began on the Tōkaidō Main Line on 15 August 1915 with the original Yokohama Station renamed Sakuragichō Station (桜木町駅). The station was connected to the Tokyo Yokohama Railway (present-day Tōkyū Tōyoko Line) on 18 May 1928; however, the Tokyo Yokohama Railway renamed its station Hon-Yokohama Station (本横浜駅) on 8 August 1928. The JNR moved Yokohama Station (and the Tōkaidō Main Line) north to the current location, thereby ending its service here on 15 October 1928, and the station reverted to its original name of Takashimachō Station on 20 January 1931.

On 4 September 1976 the underground station for the Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line was completed.

The above-ground Tōyoko Line ceased operations to this station on 31 January 2004. On the following day, 1 February 2004, Shin-Takashima Station on the newly-constructed Minatomirai Line opened, with through service to the Tōyoko Line available from that station instead, about 800 meters away. Since that time, as of March 2023, only the Municipal Subway Blue Line service remains at Takashimachō Station.

See also

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References

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  • Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7
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35°27′31″N 139°37′26″E / 35.4586°N 139.6239°E / 35.4586; 139.6239