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Ōmiya Station (大宮駅, Ōmiya-eki
?) is a railway station
located in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Saitama
Prefecture and one of the hub stations in
the Greater Tokyo Area for the East Japan Railway Company
(JR East) as well as one of the main gateways from Greater Tokyo to
the Tōhoku
and Hokuriku
regions along with Niigata and northern Nagano
Prefectures.
The following railways connect through the station:
Local and late night buses and
intercity motorcoaches including ones to Narita [1] and Haneda [2] airports also
depart from this station.[1] Train
trips involving Tokyo Monorail from Hamamatsuchō or Tennōzu Isle, and Keikyū from Shinagawa
are the alternatives to Haneda.
History
On 16 March 1885 it was opened as a station of Nippon
Tetsudō (日本鉄道 lit. Japan Railway) company.
In 1894, a railway workshop was opened to the north of the
station, and this facility is still operated by JR East and Japan Freight Railway
Company.
Station
layout
JR East
platforms
No. 1 -
11
These are five ground-level island platforms.
|
1, 2 |
■Keihin-Tōhoku Line |
Urawa, Akabane, Ueno, Tokyo |
| 3,
4 |
■Utsunomiya Line |
Urawa, Akabane, Ueno |
■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Yokosuka Line) |
Ikebukuro,
Shinjuku,
Yokohama,
Ōfuna, Zushi |
|
| ■Rapid "Musashino" |
Kita-Asaka, Shin-Akitsu, Fuchu-Hommachi |
|
| ■"Holiday Rapid Kawaguchiko" |
Tachikawa,
Hachioji, Otsuki,
Kawaguchiko |
|
| ■"Holiday Rapid Kamakura" |
Yokohama, Ōfuna, Kamakura |
|
| 6,
7 |
■Takasaki Line |
Urawa, Akabane, Ueno |
■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Tōkaidō Line) |
Ikebukuro, Shinjuku,
Yokohama, Hiratsuka, Odawara |
|
| 7 |
■Airport Ltd. Exp. "Narita
Express" |
Narita Airport |
| 8,
11 |
■Takasaki Line, Joetsu Line, Ryomo
Line |
Kumagaya, Takasaki, Maebashi, Minakami, Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi |
| 9,
11 |
■Utsunomiya Line |
Oyama, Utsunomiya, Kuroiso |
|
11 |
■Ltd. Exp. "(Spacia) Nikkō", "Kinugawa"
(through service for Tobu Nikkō
Line) |
Tochigi, Tōbu Nikkō, Kinugawa-onsen |
No. 13 -
18
These are three 3F island platforms.
|
13, 14 |
■Shinkansen |
Ueno, Tokyo |
| 15 |
■Shinkansen (partly) |
Ueno, Tokyo |
| 16 |
■Tōhoku Shinkansen
(part of "Nasuno" and "Yamabiko") |
Utsunomiya, Fukushima, Sendai |
|
17 |
■Tōhoku Shinkansen
"Hayate",
"Yamabiko", "Nasuno" |
Utsunomiya, Fukushima,
Sendai, Morioka, Hachinohe |
| ■Yamagata Shinkansen "Tsubasa" |
Utsunomiya, Fukushima, Yamagata, Shinjō |
|
| ■Akita Shinkansen "Komachi" |
Sendai, Morioka, Akita |
|
|
18 |
■Jōetsu Shinkansen "Toki", "Tanigawa" |
Takasaki, Echigo-Yuzawa, Nagaoka, Niigata |
| ■Nagano Shinkansen "Asama" |
Takasaki, Karuizawa,
Nagano |
|
No. 19 -
22
These are two underground island platforms.
Tōbu
platforms
These platforms are bay platforms.
New Shuttle
platform
New Shuttle has one platform on the middle of a balloon loop.
Adjacent
stations
Picture
See also
Coordinates: 35°54′23″N 139°37′26″E / 35.90639°N
139.62389°E / 35.90639;
139.62389
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