Hamamatsu Station

Hamamatsu 浜松
File:Hamamatsu Station 2.JPG Hamamatsu Station south exit in 2012
Location	6-2 Sunayama-chō, Naka, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka （静岡県浜松市中区砂山町6-2） Japan
Operated by	JR Central
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Main Line Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1888
Traffic
Passengers (FY2006)	37,250 daily

Hamamatsu Station (浜松駅, Hamamatsu-eki) is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). The local Enshū Railway Line terminus of Shin-Hamamatsu Station is 3 minutes' walking distance away.

Lines

Hamamatsu Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line and the high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen from Tokyo. The station is 257.1 rail kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Hamamatsu Station has two island platforms serving Tracks 1-4 for the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which are connected by an underpass a central concourse. At the same level as the Shinkansen tracks are the two island platforms serving Tracks 5-8 of the Tōkaidō Main Line. The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and a manned "Midori no Madoguchi" ticket counter.

Platforms

1	■ Home Liner	for Kakegawa and Shizuoka
2	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	for Toyohashi and Nagoya
3	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	for Kakegawa and Shizuoka
4	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	for Toyohashi and Nagoya
5	■ Tōkaidō Shinkansen	for Shin-Yokohama and Tokyo
6	■ Tōkaidō Shinkansen	for Nagoya, Shin-Osaka, and Hakata

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Tokaido Shinkansen
Nozomi: no stop
Shizuoka		Hikari		Toyohashi or Nagoya
Kakegawa		Kodama		Toyohashi
Tokaido Main Line
Iwata		Home Liner		Terminus
Terminus		Special Rapid		Takatsuka
Terminus		New Rapid		Takatsuka
Terminus		Sectional Rapid		Takatsuka
Tenryūgawa		Local		Takatsuka

History

Hamamatsu Station was officially opened on September 1, 1888. The station building was rebuilt in 1926, but this burned down during the Bombing of Hamamatsu in World War II. The station was rebuilt in 1948. On October 1, 1964, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen began operations, serving Hamamatsu. Freight operations were relocated to the Nishi-Hamamatsu Freight Depot to the west in 1971. The station underwent a massive rebuilding program from the late 1970s, with the Tōkaidō Main Line tracks elevated in 1979 to the same level as the Tōkaidō Shinkansen tracks, and the "MayOne" shopping centre/new station building completed in 1981.

References

• Yoshikawa, Fumio. Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) ISBN 4-87687-234-1. (Japanese)

External links

• Hamamatsu Station information (JR Central) (Japanese)
• Hamamatsu Station Area Map