History
Higashi-Kanagawa Station opened on 23 September 1908 as a joint-use stop on the government-operated Tōkaidō Main Line and the privately owned Yokohama Railway, the predecessor of today's Yokohama Line. A freight spur to Umikanagawa Station was opened on 10 December 1911; Keihin Electric Train services, the precursor of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line, began calling here from 20 December 1914. The Yokohama Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1917, and the station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The Umikanagawa freight branch was closed in 1959. Station numbering was introduced on 20 August 2016, with codes JK13 for the Keihin-Tōhoku Line and JH13 for the Yokohama Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Platform LED lighting installed on 15 September 2013 switches between light blue and light green to signal whether the next train will be a Keihin-Tōhoku or Yokohama Line service.