Tabata Station (Tokyo)
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JR EastJY09 JK34 Tabata Station 田端駅 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 The north exit in 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 1 Tabata, Kita City, Tokyo Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°44′16″N 139°45′41″E / 35.737909°N 139.761254°E | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | JR East | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 island platforms | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Bus terminal | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 April 1896 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| FY2013 | 45,116 daily | |||||||||||||||||||
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Tabata Station (田端駅, Tabata-eki) is a railway station in Kita, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Tabata Station is on the Tōhoku Main Line and Yamanote Line and is served by the circular Yamanote Line trains and the local and rapid trains of the Keihin–Tōhoku Line.
Platforms
The station consists of two island platforms serving four tracks, with the Yamanote Line tracks on the inside, and Keihin-Tōhoku Line tracks on the outside, enabling cross-platform interchange between the two lines. There is a north exit and a south exit from the station.
View of the tracks from the south exit
Pedestrian path immediately after leaving through the south exit
| 1 |  Keihin-Tōhoku Line |
for Akabane, Urawa, and Omiya |
| 2 |  Yamanote Line |
for Ikebukuro and Shinjuku (Anti-clockwise) |
| 3 | Yamanote Line |
for Ueno, Tokyo, and Shinagawa (Clockwise) |
| 4 | Keihin-Tōhoku Line |
for Ueno, Tokyo, and Yokohama |
Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in January 2015, with operation commencing in February.[1]
View of the platforms looking northward
History
Tabata Station opened on 1 April 1896.[2] With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.[2] The station was rebuilt between 2005 and August 2008.
Station numbering was introduced in 2016 with Tabata being assigned station numbers JY09 for the Yamanote line and JK34 for the Keihin-Tōhoku line.[3][4]
North exit circa 2005 before being rebuilt.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2013, the station was used by an average of 45,116 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 98th busiest station on the JR East network.[5] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | Daily average |
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| 2000 | 36,555[6] |
| 2005 | 41,400[7] |
| 2010 | 43,208[8] |
| 2013 | 45,116[5] |
