page_title: Yamanote Line
section_title: Former rolling stock
hierarchical_section_title: Yamanote Line / Rolling stock / Former rolling stock
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of a JR East Yamanote Line E231-500 series EMU SaHa E230-500 6-door car with seats folded up 日本語: 山手線用E231系500番台 6ドア車〈サハE230-500〉車内
context_page_description: The Yamanote Line is a railway loop line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company. It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban centres, including Marunouchi, the Yūrakuchō/Ginza area, Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro and Ueno, with all but two of its 30 stations connecting to other railway or underground lines.
  Internally JR East refers to the "Yamanote Line" as the 20.6 km corridor between Shinagawa and Tabata via Shinjuku used by Yamanote local trains. The parallel tracks used by Saikyō Line and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line trains, some limited express services, and freight trains is referred to as the Yamanote Freight Line. In everyday usage, branding on maps and station signage, the "Yamanote Line" refers to the local service running the entire 34.5 km loop.
context_section_description: Prior to the E235 series, the line's services were operated by E231-500 series EMUs, which were in use from April 21, 2002 to January 20, 2020. These trains originally each included two "six-door cars" with six pairs of doors per side and bench seats that were folded up to provide standing room only during the morning peak until 10 a.m. From February 22, 2010, the seats were no longer folded up during the morning peak, and all trains were standardized with newly built four-door cars by 31 August 2011. This was due to reduced congestion on the line as well as preparation for the installation of platform doors on all stations by 2017.
  The E231 series supported a new type of traffic control system, called digital Automatic Train Control (D-ATC). The series also had a more modern design and has two 15-inch LCD monitors above each door, one of which is used for displaying silent commercials, news and weather; and another which is used for displaying information on the next stop (in Japanese, English, Korean and more) along with notification of delays on Shinkansen and other railway lines in the greater Tokyo area. The E231-500 series trains were based at Tokyo General Rolling Stock Centre near Ōsaki Station.
  DeHo 6100 series (from 1909 until unknown date)
  MoHa 10
  63 series
  72 series
  101 series ("Canary" yellow livery, from September 1961 until circa 1968)
  103 series ("Uguisu" green livery, from December 1963 until June 26, 1988)
  205 series (from March 25, 1985 until April 17, 2005)
  E231-500 series (from April 21, 2002 until January 20, 2020)
caption: Former E231-500 series 6-door car with the seats folded up, January 2010
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