Urawa Station
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Urawa Station (Japanese: 浦和駅 Urawa Eki) is a railway station located in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama, Japan. It is the station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) Tōhoku Main Line. It is located near the Saitama City Hall and Saitama Prefectural Government's Office and the Parliament, so it serves as the front entrance to the capital of Saitama Prefecture. It is the central station in Saitama City and Saitama Prefecture according to JTB Train Guide.
The following railways connect through the station:
- East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
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[edit] History
On 28 July 1883 this station was opened as a station of Nippon Tetsudō (lit. Japan Railway) company, when this company opened the railway from Ueno Station to Kumagaya Station (part of today's Takasaki Line). At that time only 6 stations was opend along the way(Ueno, Ōji, Urawa, Ageo, Kōnosu, and Kumagaya), so Urawa Station is one of the oldest stations of Tōhoku Main Line, and the oldest in current Saitama City as well.
[edit] Station Layout
Now the new elevated railroad tracks and platforms are under construction, and so the structure of the station is quite complicated.
[edit] No. 1
This platform is the only one that is already moved to the 2nd floor.
| 1 | ■Keihin-Tohoku Line | Ueno ・ Tokyo ・ Shinagawa ・ Yokohama ・(Negishi Line) Ōfuna |
[edit] No. 2-4
These platforms are still on the ground floor. Platforms No3, and 4 forms one island platform.
| 2 | ■Keihin-Tohoku Line | Kita-Urawa ・ Yono ・ Ōmiya |
| 3 | ■Utsunomiya Line | Akabane ・ Ueno |
| ■Takasaki Line | Akabane ・ Ueno | |
| 4 | ■Utsunomiya Line | Oyama ・Utsunomiya・Kuroiso |
| ■Takasaki Line | Takasaki ・ Maebashi |
[edit] Surrounding area
- Saitama Prefectural Government's Office
- Saitama City Hall
- Isetan
- Corso (department store located in front of Urawa Station west exit)
- Urawa Royal Pines Hotel
- Urawa Washington Hotel
- Urawa Tobu Hotel
- Red Voltage (official goods shop of Urawa Reds)
- National Route 17
- National Route 463
[edit] Railway elevation around Urawa Station
Now Saitama City and JR East cooperate in the elevation of Urawa Station and the railroad tracks around it. The railroad tracks separate the town, and so cars and pedestrians can not easily go across the tracks. What's more, Shonan-Shinjuku Line trains now pass through Urawa Station, because they run on the tracks originally laid only for freight trains and Urawa Station does not have any platform for these tracks. So they have decided to reconstruct the station as the new elevated rail station, construct another platform for Shonan-Shinjuku Line trains, and widen the road which goes under the railload near the station. The construction will last for a couple of years.
[edit] Adjacent stations
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| Minami-Urawa | Keihin-Tohoku Line | Kita-Urawa | ||
| Ueno to Kuroiso (aka Utsunomiya Line) |
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Ueno - Oku - Akabane - Urawa- Saitama-Shintoshin - Ōmiya - Toro - Higashi-Ōmiya - Hasuda - Shiraoka - Shin-Shiraoka - Kuki - Higashi-Washinomiya - Kurihashi - Koga - Nogi - Mamada - Oyama - Koganei - Jichi-idai - Ishibashi - Suzumenomiya - Utsunomiya - Okamoto - Hōshyakuji - Ujiie - Kamasusaka - Kataoka - Yaita - Nozaki - Nishi-Nasuno - Nasu-Shiobara - Kuroiso |
| Kuroiso to Morioka |
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Kuroiso - Takaku - Kurodahara - Toyohara - Shirasaka - Shin-Shirakawa - Shirakawa - Kutano - Izumizaki - Yabuki - Kagamiishi - Sukagawa - Asaka-Nagamori - Kōriyama - Hiwada - Gohyakugawa - Motomiya - Sugita - Nihonmatsu - Adachi - Matsukawa - Kanayagawa - Minami-Fukushima - Fukushima - Higashi-Fukushima - Date - Kōri - Fujita - Kaida - Kosugō - Shiroishi - Higashi-Shiroishi - Kita-Shirakawa - Ōgawara - Funaoka - Tsukinoki - Iwanuma - Tatekoshi - Natori - Minami-Sendai - Nagamachi - Sendai - Higashi-Sendai - Iwakiri - (Shin Rifu - Rifu) Rikuzen-Sannō - Kokufu-Tagajō - Shiogama - Matsushima - Atago - Shinainuma - Kashimadai - Matsuyama-Machi - Kogota - Tajiri - Semine - Umegasawa - Nitta - Ishikoshi - Yushima - Hanaizumi - Shimizuhara - Arikabe - Ichinoseki - Yamanome - Hiraizumi - Maesawa - Rikuchū-Orii - Mizusawa - Kanegasaki - Rokuhara - Kitakami - Murasakino - Hanamaki - Hanamaki Airport - Ishidoriya - Hizume - Shiwachūō - Furudate - Yahaba - Iwate-Iioka - Senbokuchō - Morioka |
| Morioka to Hachinohe via Tōhoku Shinkansen, Aoimori Railway Line or Iwate Ginga Railway Line |
| Hachinohe to Aomori |
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Hachinohe - Mutsu-Ichikawa - Shimoda - Mukaiyama - Misawa - Kogawara - Kamikita-Chō - Ottomo - Chibiki - Noheji - Karibasawa - Shimizugawa - Kominato - Nishi-Hiranai - Asamushi-Onsen - Nonai - Yadamae - Koyanagi - Higashi-Aomori - Aomori |
(Tohoku Main Line(Utsunomiya Line) Ueno>>)- Ōmiya - Miyahara - Ageo - Kita-Ageo - Okegawa - Kitamoto - Kōnosu - Kita-Kōnosu - Fukiage - Gyōda - Kumagaya - Kagohara - Fukaya - Okabe - Honjō - Jinbohara - Shinmachi - Kuragano - Takasaki
Ōmiya - Saitama-Shintoshin - Yono - Kita-Urawa - Urawa - Minami-Urawa - Warabi - Nishi-Kawaguchi - Kawaguchi - Akabane - Higashi-Jūjō - Ōji - Kami-Nakazato - Tabata - Nishi-Nippori - Nippori - Uguisudani - Ueno - Okachimachi - Akihabara - Kanda - Tokyo - Yūrakuchō - Shimbashi - Hamamatsuchō - Tamachi - Shinagawa - Ōimachi - Ōmori - Kamata - Kawasaki - Tsurumi - Shin-Koyasu - Higashi-Kanagawa - Yokohama - Sakuragichō - Kannai - Ishikawachō - Yamate - Negishi - Isogo - Shin-Sugita - Yōkōdai - Kōnandai - Hongōdai - Ōfuna
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