Kamata

is the administrative center of the district of, and the nodal place of transport of the south of Tōkyō.

Trade

Kamata is a place of relaxation and entertainment gathering several department stores and shopping malls: Tōkyū, Sun Kamata, Palio and Yuzawaya. The station is surrounded by many commercial passages ( shotengai ), traditional shopping malls, shops and several shops with products at reduced prices.

Transport

The access to two networks allows:

the Network Tōkyū whose Kamata is the southern terminus of two lines:

the line Tōkyū Ikegami connecting to Kamata;
the line Tōkyū Tamagawa connecting to Kamata.

the network Japan Railways East, of which the line Keihin Tohoku connects Ōfuna to Ōmiya, serving all the hyper center of Tōkyō, towns of Kawasaki, Yokohama.

Kamata is the last station of the town of Tokyo before Kawasaki and the prefecture of Kanagawa.

Of the network Keikyū is located at 700 m in the east of the main station. It connects the International airport of Tōkyō-Haneda to the east, Kawasaki, Yokohama and their suburbs in the west.

There exists a project of junction of the two stations within ten years.

Cinema

Kamata was an important place of the Japanese Cinéma according to war with the plates of cinema of the Shôchiku which were then transferred to Ōfuna.

Yasujirō Ozu made several films there.

The district and the decline of the plates of cinema inspired a famous film in Japan, Kamata Koshin Kyoku (ravelled musical in Kamata), where a growing old actor is upset by the arrival of modernity.

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