The station has one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, connected by a footbridge, with an elevated station building located above the platforms. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.
The station became part of the JR East network after the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987.
1973 riots
On 13 March 1973, when a labor union attempted to protest by causing train delays, thousands of commuters rioted at the station, assaulting station personnel and destroying equipment over a six-hour period.[1][2] The riots were instrumental in influencing the privatization of the JNR in 1987.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 41,655 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3]
^"Railway Rampage, Commuters Riot". Spokane Daily Chronicle. 13 March 1973.
^Low, Nicholas (2013). Transforming urban transport: the ethics, politics and practices of sustainable mobility. Routledge. pp. 99–102. ISBN9780415529037.
^各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
External links
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