Kawasaki

Weekday departures: 1,415/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 761/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:34 / 24:34 (00:34 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (114)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026 to 4 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: JR Nambu Line Hamakawasaki Branch

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tokaido Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tokaido Main Line: Kamata (Tokyo) ⇄ Tsurumi
• JR Nambu Line Hamakawasaki Branch: Shitte

Kawasaki Station opened on 10 July 1872 (5 June by the old Japanese calendar) as one of the first intermediate stops on Japan's earliest railway, between Shinagawa and the original Yokohama terminus at present-day Sakuragichō. Freight handling began in 1898, the electric Keihin Line started running in December 1914, and the Nambu Railway (today's Nambu Line) reached the station on 9 March 1927. After Nambu was nationalised in 1944, Kawasaki gained Kanagawa Prefecture's first station building (ekibiru) in 1959. The station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation in 1987, was rebuilt with an elevated concourse in 1988, and a ticket gate inside the Atre Kawasaki complex, together with a new north concourse, opened in 2018.

Until 1969 the Kawasaki City Tram ran from a terminus directly outside this station, covering 6.7 km to the long-since-closed Shiohama Station.