ÅŒmiya Station (Saitama)

JR

  • Tōhoku Shinkansen
  • Joetsu Shinkansen
  • Nagano Shinkansen
  • Tōhoku Main Line ( Utsunomiya Line)
  • Keihin - Tohoku Line
  • Takasaki Line
  • Saikyo Line
  • Kawagoe Line

Tōbu

  • Noda Line

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The Ōmiya Station (Japanese大 宫 駅, -eki Ōmiya ) is located in Saitama in Saitama prefecture of the same name. The railway station is an important railway junction of the Tokyo region and the busiest station in the Saitama Prefecture. He is a transfer station from the Tokyo region in the Tohoku and Hokuriku regions as well as to the prefectures of Niigata and Nagano.

Station layout

The station has 22 tracks, of which the tracks 1 to 11 on five island platforms at ground level part of the rail network of JR East. Here have various regional trains and the Narita Express to the airport.

The tracks 13 to 18 are located on three island platforms in an elevated position. Here, for example, runs the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Ueno, Tohoku Shinkansen to Utsunomiya, the Yamagata Shinkansen, the Joetsu Shinkansen and Akita Shinkansen.

The tracks 19 to 22 on two island platforms belong to the underground with the Saikyo line and the Kawagoe Line. The Tobu platform for the Noda Line is a head platform.

Lines

Ōmiya is served by the following lines:

  • JR East Tōhoku Shinkansen
  • JR East Akita Shinkansen
  • JR East Shinkansen Yamagata
  • JR East Joetsu Shinkansen
  • JR East Shinkansen Nagano
  • JR East Keihin - Tohoku Line
  • JR East Saikyo Line
  • JR East Takasaki Line
  • JR East Tōhoku Main Line ( Utsunomiya Line)
  • JR East Kawagoe Line
  • JR East Shonan -Shinjuku Line
  • Tobu Noda Line
  • Saitama Shin Toshi Kotsu New Shuttle ( Ina- line)

Adjacent stations

Bus

The city buses, night buses and express buses operate on the Ōmiya station, including the buses to Narita International Airport and Haneda Domestic Airport. Since the buses to Haneda are often affected by traffic problems, connecting with the monorail of Tennozu station or to the Keihin Electric Express Railway from Shinagawa Station is safer.

History

The station was the first private railway company in Japan, which on March 16, 1885 tetsudō Nippon (日本 鉄 道, literally: "Japan Railways " ) opened.

JR Freight, which formed after the privatization of the Japanese railroad in 1987, the railway freight transport companies, and JR East operate a railway depot at Ōmiya station, which in 1894 became operational for the Japanese Railway.

JR East will open in October 2007, a railway museum near the railway station, in which a part of the previously exhibited at the Transport Museum exhibits will be relocated.

Environment

  • Sonic City

Depāto ( department store )

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