Tokaichiba (Kanagawa)

Weekday departures: 468/day · Sat & holiday departures: 242/day

First / last train (weekday): 4:56 / 24:13

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (41)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Yokohama Line: Nagatsuta ⇄ Nakayama (Kanagawa)

Tōkaichiba Station opened on 1 April 1979 as a JNR station on the Yokohama Line, alongside Naruse Station on the opposite side of nearby Nagatsuta, and was a focal point of the line's doubling-track promotion drive. The very first scheduled departure was delayed because staff forgot to open the shutters in time. The country's first three-storey bicycle parking deck opened in front of the station on 23 April 1980. The station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, gained automated turnstiles in 1994, Suica gates on 18 November 2001, and station number JH20 on 2 April 2016.

On its opening day in 1979 the first scheduled train was delayed because station staff had forgotten to open the shutters in time — a footnote in the local railway history.