The T2K collaboration: reports evidence for electron neutrino appearance at the atmospheric mass splitting, |Delta m_{32}^2|=2.4x10^{-3} eV^2. An excess of electron neutrino interactions over background is observed from a muon neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV at the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector 295 km from the beams origin. Signal and background predictions are constrained by data from near detectors located 280 m from the neutrino production target. We observe 11 electron neutrino candidate events at the SK detector when a background of 3.3pm0.4(syst.) events is expected. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with a p-value of 0.0009 (3.1sigma), and a fit assuming u_{mu}-> u_e oscillations with sin^2(2theta_{23})=1, delta_{CP}=0 and |Delta m_{32}^2|=2.4x10^{-3} eV^2 yields sin^2(2theta_{13})=0.088^{+0.049}_{-0.039}(stat.+syst.).
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