Yamate

Weekday departures: 758/day · Sat & holiday departures: 360/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:25 / 24:44 (00:44 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (50)

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.

• Negishi Line: Ishikawacho ⇄ Negishi (Kanagawa)

Yamate Station opened on 19 May 1964 with the inauguration of the JNR Negishi Line between Sakuragichō and Isogo. It passed to JR East at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 6 August 1993; Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001. The staffed ticket office (Midori-no-Madoguchi) closed on 23 March 2013, and a new station building, relocated about 50 m towards Ōfuna, was inaugurated the following day; the station was outsourced to JR East Station Services on 1 July 2013. Platform-edge doors entered service on 25 March 2022.

Despite its name, Yamate Station is not the closest station to Yokohama's historic Yamate-chō district, the foreign settlement that dates from the opening of the port; that area lies nearer JR's Ishikawachō Station and the Minatomirai Line's Motomachi-Chūkagai Station. One reason the JNR changed the Yamanote Line's destination displays in 1971 from 'Yamate' to 'Yamanote', unifying the reading as Yamanote-sen, was that the opening of this station on the through route of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line — which runs parallel to the Yamanote Line — led passengers to mistake Yamanote Line trains for trains bound for Yamate Station towards Yokohama.