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The Yamanote Line (Japanese: 山手線, romanized: Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban centres, including Marunouchi, the Yūrakuchō/Ginza area, Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Ueno, with all but two of its ...
The station consists of an elevated island platform serving the two Yamanote Line tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. [1]Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms, brought into use from 20 April 2013.
The Rail Pass does not cover city subways (though local JR lines such as the Yamanote line are covered). The Rail Pass is good for either 7, 14 or 21 consecutive days, and a day starts and ends at midnight.
A special discount ticket is offered to riders needing to transfer to the Yamanote Line. [36] Commuter and travel passes are also available. [35] The Tokyo Monorail began accepting the contactless smart card Suica on 21 April 2002. [8]: 260 It began issuing its own "Monorail Suica" cards in 2009. [37]
Shin-Ōkubo Station is served by the circular Yamanote Line, with trains running every four minutes during the daytime off-peak.It is one of only two stations on the Yamanote Line that does not provide a direct connection to any other line, the other being Mejiro Station, two stops away.
This network includes the Yamanote Line, which encircles the center of Tokyo; the Keihin-Tōhoku Line between Saitama and Yokohama; the Utsunomiya Line (part of the Tōhoku Main Line) to Saitama and beyond; the Chūō Line to western Tokyo; the Sōbu Line, Chūō-Sōbu Line and Keiyō Line to Chiba; and the Yokohama, Tōkaidō, and Yokosuka ...
Okachimachi Station is served by the circular Yamanote Line and also the Keihin-Tohoku Line.Although not physically connected, Naka-Okachimachi on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, Ueno-hirokōji on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, and Ueno-okachimachi on the Toei Oedo Line are within walking distance of Okachimachi and marked as interchanges on route maps.
A single locomotive on the Yamanote Freight Line between the Yamanote Line and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line platforms, May 2006. The station has four island platforms serving eight tracks. Platforms 1 to 4 are for the Yamanote Line, and 5 to 8 are shared by the Saikyō Line, the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, and the Rinkai Line.