The Tokyu station is an elevated structure with two island platforms serving four tracks above ground. The station building is also connected to the Tokyu Store, a large upscale supermarket, and the reformed Tokyu Department Store on the second floor, which features many individually branded shops as well as a major consumer electronic shop (Yamada Denki) as a tenant occupying most of the third floor. The Yokohama Subway consists of a single island platform underground.
The Municipal Subway station has one island platforms serving two tracks for incoming trains to dock in alternating pattern.
The main fare gate concourse of Tokyu Railways is just above the Tokyu platforms which is before the Tokyu Store and bus terminal. The Tokyu Railways and Municipal Subway also share an integral underground fare gate concourse which is sandwiched between the platform levels of the two systems. The integral concourse allows quick interchange between the two systems.
Tokyu platforms
Tokyu platforms, April 2008Green Line platforms, December 2021
for Shin-yokohama (from Meguro Line) Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line for Nishiya Sōtetsu Main Line for Futamata-gawa and Ebina Sōtetsu Izumino Line for Shōnandai
Hiyoshi Station opened as one of the original Tōyoko Line stations on 14 February 1926. The station was completely rebuilt in 1991 with half-submerged tracks and an elevated station building constructed above the tracks. The adjacent Tokyu Department store opened in 1995. The Yokohama Subway Green Line connected to Hiyoshi Station on March 30, 2008.[citation needed]
The Tōkyū Shin-yokohama Line from Shin-yokohama to Hiyoshi opened on 18 March 2023, enabling through services between the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line, the Tōkyū Meguro Line and the Sōtetsu Shin-yokohama Line.[1] As a result, the station was assigned station number SH03 when these services began revenue operations.[2]
Since the opening of the Shin-yokohama Line, most southbound express trains of the Meguro Line continue onward to the Shin-yokohama Line instead of terminating at Hiyoshi, while about half of the Meguro Line local trains remain terminating at/departing from Hiyoshi. Only some of the southbound express trains of the Tōyoko Line enter Shin-yokohama Line. The rest of the express, all limited express, commuter express and local trains remain on the Tōyoko Line for Kikuna, Yokohama and Motomachi-Chūkagai.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the Tokyu station was used by an average of 206,301 passengers daily.[3] During the same period, the Yokohama Municipal Subway was used by an average of 84,908 passengers daily,[4]
The daily average passenger figures for previous years (boarding passengers only) are as shown below.
^"開業 PR ロゴ・駅ナンバーを決定しました" [Opening PR logo and station number decided] (PDF). sotetsu.co.jp (in Japanese). 16 September 2022. Archived from the original(PDF) on 17 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
^"2020年度乗降人員" (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyu Corporation. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^横浜市統計書 第９章 道路、運輸及び通信 [Yokohama City Statistics Chapter 9 Roads, Transportation and Communications (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: Yokohama City. 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
^神奈川県県勢要覧（平成18年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2005)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^神奈川県県勢要覧（平成23年度） [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^神奈川県県勢要覧（平成28年度 [Kanagawa Prefecture official statistics (fiscal 2010)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Kanagawa Prefecture. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
