History
Kawasaki Station opened on 10 July 1872 (5 June by the old Japanese calendar) as one of the first intermediate stops on Japan's earliest railway, between Shinagawa and the original Yokohama terminus at present-day Sakuragichō. Freight handling began in 1898, the electric Keihin Line started running in December 1914, and the Nambu Railway (today's Nambu Line) reached the station on 9 March 1927. After Nambu was nationalised in 1944, Kawasaki gained Kanagawa Prefecture's first ekibiru building in 1959. The station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation in 1987, was rebuilt with an elevated concourse in 1988, and the Atre concourse opened in 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until 1969 the Kawasaki City Tram ran from a terminus directly outside this station, threading 6.7 km east across the industrial flats to the long-since-closed Shiohama Station.