Kannai Station

Kannai Station (関内駅) is an interchange passenger railway station located in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Yokohama Municipal Subway.

Lines
Kannai Station is served by the Negishi Line from Yokohama to Ōfuna in Kanagawa Prefecture. with through services inter-running to and from the Keihin-Tōhoku Line and also the Yokohama Line. It is 3.0 kilometers from the terminus of the Negishi line at Yokohama, and 62.1 kilometers from the northern terminus of the Keihin-Tōhoku Line at Ōmiya. It is also served by the underground Yokohama Subway Blue Line, and is 19.7 km from the terminus of the Blue Line at Shōnandai.

Station layout
JR Kannai Station is an elevated station with two opposed side platforms, connected to the station building below by underpasses. The Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line Station is located on the 2nd & 3rd underground floors, north of the main station. It has two island platforms serving three tracks. Platform 1 is not used due to the curvature of the line, and there is no corresponding track. Platforms 2 and 4 are in use, and Platform 3 is not in use for embarking or disembarking passengers but only for storage.

History
Kannai Station was opened on 9 May 1964 as a station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR). The Yokohama Municipal Subway began operations to Kannai Station from September 4, 1976. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR in 1987.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, an average of 55,299 passengers daily boarded the JR line from this station. During the same period, an additional 23,299 passengers (boarding passengers only) made use of this station for the Blue Line.

The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

 * Yokohama City Hall
 * Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
 * Yokohama Park
 * Yokohama Stadium
 * Yokohama Media Business Center
 * Kanagawa Shimbun
 * TV Kanagawa headquarters
 * Isezakichō Shopping Street
 * Yokohama Chinatown