Yamato (Kanagawa)

Weekday departures: 774/day · Sat & holiday departures: 717/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:22 / 24:19

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (51)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Odakyu Enoshima Line: Sakuragaoka
• Sotetsu Main Line: Sagami-Otsuka ⇄ Seya

Yamato Station opened on 12 May 1926 as a station of the Jinchū Railway, the predecessor of the Sōtetsu Main Line. The Odakyū Enoshima Line opened a separate station slightly to the west on 1 April 1929 under the name Nishi-Yamato; on 1 June 1944 the two were consolidated as a joint Yamato Station, with the Sōtetsu station shifted 200 metres toward Sagami-Ōtsuka. The Sōtetsu station was destroyed by arson in June 1958 and rebuilt by 1 July as a steel-frame structure. A full reconstruction with grade separation began in 1986, the Sōtetsu tracks went underground on 1 August 1993, and the Odakyū side was expanded to two island platforms and four tracks on 1 November 1994.

The arcade-like Promenade running east of the station was built directly over the abandoned trackbed of the former Sagami Railway surface line, after the line was rerouted underground in 1993.