Operated by JR East Opened 28 July 1883 Platforms in use 3 | Connections Bus terminal Passengers (FY2014) 84,725 daily | |
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Similar Minami‑Urawa Station, Kita‑Urawa Station, Musashi‑Urawa Station, Ōmiya Station, Naka‑Urawa Station | ||
Urawa station
Urawa Station (浦和駅, Urawa-eki) is a railway station in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is located near Saitama City Office and the Saitama Prefectural Government Office.
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Urawa station
Lines
Urawa Station is served by the Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line, Takasaki Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line and Shonan-Shinjuku Lines. It is 6.1 kilometers from Ōmiya and 24.2 kilometers from Tokyo.
Station layout
The station has three elevated island platforms, serving six tracks, with the station building underneath. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.
History
Urawa Station opened on 28 July 1883 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, there were only six stations along the route (Ueno, Ōji, Urawa, Ageo, Kōnosu, and Kumagaya), so Urawa Station is one of the oldest stations of the Tōhoku Main Line, and is also the oldest in the present-day city of Saitama.
Following eight years of construction, the station became fully elevated in March 2013, therefore allowing the Shonan-Shinjuku Line to serve the station from 16 March 2013 onwards.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 84,720 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 51st-busiest station operated by JR East. The daily passenger figures (boarding passengers only) in previous years are as shown below.