page_title: Yokohama Station
section_title: Third station
hierarchical_section_title: Yokohama Station / History / Third station
caption_attribution_description: English: Yokohama Station circa 1930日本語: 1930年頃の横浜駅
context_page_description: Yokohama Station is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth-busiest in the world as of 2013, serving 760 million passengers a year.
context_section_description: On October 15, 1928, the third (current) Yokohama Station opened on the north side of the second station. The Tōkaidō Main Line also moved to its current route, which was the route of the bypass line opened in 1898. The government railways and the Toyoko Line shared the station from the beginning.
  On February 5, 1930, the Keihin Electric Railway (now the Keikyu Main Line) was connected to the station.
  On December 27, 1933, the Jinchū Railway (now the Sotetsu Main Line) was connected to the station. On December 9, 1957, the north side underground entrance opened. On December 1, 1965, the MARS on-line ticket reservation system was introduced at the station. On September 4, 1976, the Yokohama City Subway Line No. 3 was connected to Yokohama Station. On November 7, 1980, the new east station building and east-west passage opened. On January 31, 2004, The Tōkyū Tōyoko Line platform reopened underground, and on February 1, 2004, the Minatomirai Line opened.
caption: The third station, completed in 1928
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