Higashi-Totsuka Station is served by the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line and the Yokosuka Line. It is located 36.7 km from the terminus of the Yokosuka Line at Tokyo Station. The station is located on the Tōkaidō Main Line, but trains operating on the Tōkaidō Main Line do not stop at Higashi-Totsuka. Instead, there are a set of tracks on the left of Higashi Totsuka station where the trains on the Tokaido line pass ( not to be confused by the tracks on the right, witch is operated by JR cargo; cargo trains pass use the tracks).
Station layout
The station consists of a single island platform with two tracks. The station buildings are built above the platforms. The station had a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office ,but it is closed since August 2024; the only way to buy tickets is to use the ticket machines.
The Yokosuka line and the Shōnan-Shinjuku through services share the exact same platforms.
Higashi-Totsuka Station opened as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on October 1, 1980, after local residents had petitioned the government for a railway station for over a half century. The opening coincided with the separation of the tracks for the Tōkaidō Main Line and Yokosuka Line into two separate sets of tracks from Yokohama through Ōfuna Station.[citation needed]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 44,389 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1] Higashi totsuka station is very crowded in the morning and night rush hours. When ever a train arrives at the station, there is a long line for the escalator going toward the station building, which is above the tracks. The escalator that goes down to the platforms of Higashi totsuka station changes to a escalator that goes up to the station building at 5:30 P.M.
The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.
^各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^神奈川県県勢要覧（平成18年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^神奈川県県勢要覧（平成23年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^神奈川県県勢要覧（平成28年度 [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Archived from the original(PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
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