 Following the Meiji Restoration, the new Imperial government expropriated the daimyo-held lands in Shiodome to build .This served as the Tokyo terminus of the Tōkaidō Main Line, the first railway in Japan, from 1872 until 1914.In 1914, the line was extended to Tokyo Station, the passenger terminal at Shiodome was closed down, and Karasumori Station on the Yamanote Line was renamed Shimbashi Station.