History
Sakuragichō Station is one of the oldest railway stations in Japan, opened on 12 June 1872 as the original Yokohama Station when service between Shinagawa and Yokohama provisionally began. It was renamed Sakuragichō on 15 August 1915 when the second Yokohama Station opened closer to Takashimachō, and the original wooden depot was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The station served as the Tokyu Tōyoko Line terminus from 31 March 1932 until 31 January 2004, and the new CIAL Sakuragichō commercial complex and north gate opened on 16 July 2014. A second elevated complex, the JR Sakuragichō Building with the New South Gate, opened on 27 June 2020 alongside the Sakura-Mirai-Bashi pedestrian deck.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Sakuragichō shares Japan's earliest railway-opening date with Shinagawa; a 'Birthplace of Railway' monument and the Kyu-Yoko Gallery, displaying a JNR Class 110 locomotive, mark the site.