Yamate

History

Yamate Station opened on 19 May 1964 with the inauguration of the JNR Negishi Line between Sakuragichō and Isogo. It passed to JR East at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 6 August 1993; Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001. The staffed ticket office (Midori-no-Madoguchi) closed on 23 March 2013, and a new station building, relocated about 50 m towards Ōfuna, was inaugurated the following day; the station was outsourced to JR East Station Services on 1 July 2013. Platform-edge doors entered service on 25 March 2022.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

Despite its name, Yamate Station is not actually the closest station to Yokohama's famous Yamate-chō hillside neighbourhood—the original ferry-port "Yamate" district was opened to foreign residents in 1859 and lies closer to Ishikawachō and the Minatomirai Line's Motomachi-Chūkagai Station. The 1971 renaming of the JNR Yamanote Line from "Yamate Line" to "Yamanote Line" was partly because the opening of this Yamate Station on a route running through to the Keihin-Tōhoku/Yamanote tracks led passengers to mistake Yamanote-bound trains for trains heading to Yokohama's Yamate Station.