Utsunomiya Station

Utsunomiya Station (宇都宮駅, Utsunomiya-eki^?) is a JR East railway station located in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

Tobu Utsunomiya Station is located 1.6 kilometre west of this station.

Utsunomiya Station (west) and the connecting pedestrian walkway

[edit] Lines Serving Utsunomiya

Tōhoku Shinkansen
Utsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line)
Shonan-Shinjuku Line
Nikkō Line
Karasuyama Line (Limited direct through service offered on the Utsunomiya Line via Utsunomiya and Okamoto to Hōshukuji and beyond.)

Platform	Line	Towards
1	■Tōhoku Shinkansen	Nasushiobara, Fukushima, Sendai, and Morioka
1	■Yamagata Shinkansen	Yamagata and Shinjo
4	■Tokyo-bound Shinkansen	Omiya, Ueno, and Tokyo
5	■Nikkō Line	Kanuma, Imaichi, and Nikkō
7～10	■Utsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line)	Yaita, Nasushiobara, Kuroiso （Some trains provide direct through service to the Karasuyama Line）
	■Utsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line)	Oyama, Ōmiya, Ueno （Some trains provide direct through service to the Ryomō Line at Oyama）
	■Shonan-Shinjuku Line	Ōmiya, Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Yokohama, Zushi (Direct through service to the Yokosuka Line)

Some Nikkō Line trains operate from platform 7. Some Utsunomiya Line trains operate from platform 5.

July 16, 1885: Station opened on what is now the Tōhoku Main Line. The station also sold Japan's first Eki-ben lunch.
June 1, 1890: Nikkō Line begins operation
June 23, 1982: Tōhoku Shinkansen begins operation

	Yamagata Shinkansen split begins at Fukushima
	Akita Shinkansen split begins at Morioka

Ueno to Kuroiso (aka Utsunomiya Line)

Ueno - Oku - Akabane - Urawa- Saitama-Shintoshin - Ōmiya - Toro - Higashi-Ōmiya - Hasuda - Shiraoka - Shin-Shiraoka - Kuki - Higashi-Washinomiya - Kurihashi - Koga - Nogi - Mamada - Oyama - Koganei - Jichi-idai - Ishibashi - Suzumenomiya - Utsunomiya - Okamoto - Hōshyakuji - Ujiie - Kamasusaka - Kataoka - Yaita - Nozaki - Nishi-Nasuno - Nasu-Shiobara - Kuroiso

Kuroiso to Morioka

Kuroiso - Takaku - Kurodahara - Toyohara - Shirasaka - Shin-Shirakawa - Shirakawa - Kutano - Izumizaki - Yabuki - Kagamiishi - Sukagawa - Asaka-Nagamori - Kōriyama - Hiwada - Gohyakugawa - Motomiya - Sugita - Nihonmatsu - Adachi - Matsukawa - Kanayagawa - Minami-Fukushima - Fukushima - Higashi-Fukushima - Date - Kōri - Fujita - Kaida - Kosugō - Shiroishi - Higashi-Shiroishi - Kita-Shirakawa - Ōgawara - Funaoka - Tsukinoki - Iwanuma - Tatekoshi - Natori - Minami-Sendai - Nagamachi - Sendai - Higashi-Sendai - Iwakiri - (Shin Rifu - Rifu) Rikuzen-Sannō - Kokufu-Tagajō - Shiogama - Matsushima - Atago - Shinainuma - Kashimadai - Matsuyama-Machi - Kogota - Tajiri - Semine - Umegasawa - Nitta - Ishikoshi - Yushima - Hanaizumi - Shimizuhara - Arikabe - Ichinoseki - Yamanome - Hiraizumi - Maesawa - Rikuchū-Orii - Mizusawa - Kanegasaki - Rokuhara - Kitakami - Murasakino - Hanamaki - Hanamaki Airport - Ishidoriya - Hizume - Shiwachūō - Furudate - Yahaba - Iwate-Īoka - Senbokuchō - Morioka