Nakayama Station (中山駅) is an interchange railway station located in Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, jointly operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Yokohama Municipal Subway.

Lines

Nakayama Station is served by the Yokohama Line from Higashi-Kanagawa to Hachiōji, and is 13.5 km from the official starting point of the line at Higashi-Kanagawa. Many services continue west of Higashi-Kanagawa via the Negishi Line to Sakuragicho during the offpeak, and to Ōfuna during the morning peak. It is also the terminus of the 13.0 km Yokohama Municipal Subway Green Line to Hiyoshi.

Station layout

JR East station has a single side platform and an island platform serving three tracks. It has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office. The Yokohama Green Line subway station has a single island platform serving two underground tracks.

JR East platforms

Yokohama Municipal Subway platforms

History

Nakayama Station opened on 23 September 1908. A new station building was completed in 1985. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. It became an interchange station with the Green Line on 30 March 2008. Station numbering was introduced to the Yokohama Line on 20 August 2016 with Nakayama being assigned station number JH19.

Accidents

On 20 January 2006, a 60-year-old man was killed by a train at the station after jumping from the platform onto the tracks to commit suicide. On 1 October 2013, a 40-year-old woman, Natsue Murata (村田 奈津恵), was hit and killed by a train while trying to assist a 74-year-old-man who was spotted lying on the level crossing immediately to the east of the station. The man survived with injuries. On 4 October, the Government announced that it would award the Medal with Red Ribbon (紅綬褒章) to Murata posthumously for demonstrating extraordinary courage in saving another person's life.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR station was used by an average of 41,986 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). During the same period, the Yokohama Municipal Subway by an average of 15,383 passengers daily, (boarding passengers only). The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area