is a junction passenger railway station located in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is located near Saitama City Office and the Saitama Prefectural Government Office.
Urawa Station is served by the Tà Âhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line, Takasaki Line, Keihin-Tà Âhoku Line, and Shà Ânan-Shinjuku Lines. It is 6.1 kilometers from and 24.2 kilometers from .
The station has three elevated island platforms, serving six tracks, with the station building underneath. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.
Urawa Station opened on 28 July 1883 as a station of Nippon Tetsudà  (lit. Japan Railway) company, when this company opened the railway from Ueno Station to Kumagaya Station (part of today's Takasaki Line). At that time, there were only six stations along the route (, , Urawa, , , and ), so Urawa Station is one of the oldest stations of the Tà Âhoku Main Line, and is also the oldest in the present-day city of Saitama.
Following eight years of construction, the station became fully elevated in March 2013, therefore allowing the Shà Ânan-Shinjuku Line to serve the station from 16 March 2013 onwards.
In 2017, chest-height platform edge doors were installed on the Keihin-TÃ Âhoku Line platforms (1 and 2), brought into use from 21 October 2017.
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 95,865 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The daily passenger figures (boarding passengers only) in previous years are as shown below.