Akabane train station

Akabane train station
Aerial view of Akabane train station from 1974
Data
Design	Through station
Platform tracks	8th
abbreviation	ア ネ ( A-Ne )
opening	March 1, 1885
location
City / municipality	Day care center
prefecture	Tokyo
Country	Japan
Coordinates	35 ° 46 '41 "  N , 139 ° 43' 15"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 46 '41 "  N , 139 ° 43' 15"  E
Railway lines
JR Main Tōhoku Line (Utsunomiya Line) Akabane line
List of train stations in Japan

The Akabane Station ( Jap. 赤羽駅 , Akabane-eki ) is a station of the Japanese JR Higashi-Nihon ( JR East ) in Kita in Tokyo . It was opened as early as 1885 as the end point of the Shinagawa Line (today: Akabane Line ) to Shinagawa. The Akabane line later became a branch line of the Tōhoku main line and branches off from it south of the station. To the north, the main line divides into a six-track line to Ōmiya and a further west parallel to the Tōhoku Shinkansen section that is used by the Saikyō line.

history

1883 opened the first private railway company in Japan, the Nippon Tetsudō ( 日本 鉄 道 , literally: "Japan Railway"), their first railway line between Ueno and Kumagaya . Two years later it completed the branching connection to Shinagawa and opened Akabane station at the connection point on March 1, 1885. In 1906 he was in the nationalization transmitted to the state track of Nippon Testsudō 1909 then part of Tohoku main line.

In 1985 the section of the Tōhoku Shinkansen between Ueno and Ōmiya was created, in this area parallel to the main line. In the same year an additional line was opened from Akabane via Musashi-Urawa to Ōmiya and has since been used together with the Akabane line as the Saikyō line .

During the clashes between the Kokutetsu and the trade unions in the Shunto in 1973, Akabane station was the starting point of violent riots by passengers against the strike measures of the railway workers who were later transferred to other stations on April 24, 1973, a good month after the Ageo incident assaulted and brought the entire state railway network to a standstill in the Tokyo area.

In 1987 the station fell to the JR Higashi-Nihon when the state railway was divided and privatized. In order to end the obstruction of road traffic at the surrounding level crossings, construction work began in 1990 to raise the station tracks to the elevated railway, which was completed in 1998.

Type of construction and tracks

The JR station is built in the style of a through station. It has eight tracks that are used by four platforms in the form of island platforms. The entrances are under the elevated tracks in this area . The platforms are numbered from east to west, on the west side the tracks of the Tōhoku Shinkansen pass the station.

1	▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line	Ueno • Tokyo • Kawasaki • Yokohama • Ōfuna
2	▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line	Kawaguchi • Urawa • Ōmiya
3	▉  Utsunomiya and Takasaki Lines	Oku • Ueno
4th	▉  Utsunomiya line	Urawa • Ōmiya • Oyama • Utsunomiya • Kuroiso
	▉  Takasaki Line	Urawa • Ōmiya • Kumagaya • Takasaki • Maebashi
5	▉  Shōnan-Shinjuku line	Ikebukuro • Shinjuku • Shibuya • Yokohama • Odawara (Tōkaidō Line)
	▉  Shōnan-Shinjuku line	Ikebukuro • Shinjuku • Shibuya • Yokohama • Zushi (Yokosuka line)
6th	▉  Shōnan-Shinjuku line	Ōmiya • Oyama • Utsunomiya (Utsunomiya line)
	▉  Shōnan-Shinjuku line	Ōmiya • Kumagaya • Takasaki • Maebashi (Takasaki Line)
7th	▉  Saikyō line	Ikebukuro • Shinjuku • Shibuya • Ōzaki • Shin-Kiba
8th	▉  Saikyō line	Musashi-Urawa • Ōmiya • Kawagoe

Adjacent train stations

With the exception of some express trains subject to a surcharge ( Ohayō / Hometown Tochigi : Shinjuku-Kuroiso, Akagi : Ueno-Maebashi, Kusatsu : Ueno-Minakami / Manza-Kazawaguchi), Akabane station is only served in regional traffic, with most express trains stopping there. The following neighboring stations are directly connected to it in regular services:

←	Lines			→
Higashi-jūjō		Keihin Tōhoku Line, JR East		Kawaguchi
Ueno (express trains) Oku		Utsunomiya and Takasaki Lines JR East		Urawa
Ikebukuro		JR East Shonan-Shinjuku Line		Urawa
Jūjō		Saikyō Line JR East		Musashi-Urawa ("commuter express train") Toda-Kōen (express train) Kita-Akabane

Surroundings

The immediate vicinity of Akabane Station is the business center of Kita-ku. On the east side there are supermarkets, shopping streets, smaller office buildings and a covered shopping street that is closed to normal traffic. Three larger commercial buildings were built directly at the west entrance. North of the train station is Seibi Gakuen Tanki Daigaku , a Salesian short college with an attached elementary, middle and high school.

To the northwest of the station is the Akabanedai Danchi public housing project , in which more than 3,000 apartments were built in 55 buildings in the 1960s. As part of the government program “Urban Renaissance” ( UR toshi kikō ), further apartment buildings have now been built there.

use

With an average of 88,632 boarding passengers per day, Akabane was ranked 45th among the JR Higashi-Nihon stations in 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview map of the housing project
2. ↑ UR toshi kikō: Overview map of the projects in day care center ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ JR East: average daily entries 2007 (without transfers)

Web links

• Official JR homepage for the train station