Akihabara train station
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 Akihabara train station
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ア キ (A-Ki) (JR-East) ア キ (A-Ki) (Tōkyō Metro) |
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| City / municipality | Chiyoda |
| prefecture | Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 41 '55 " N , 139 ° 46' 23" E |
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JR East: Tōkyō Metro: ME: |
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The Akihabara Station ( Jap. 秋葉原駅 , Akihabara-eki ) is located in Chiyoda in Tokyo and is an important railway junction. The station is located in the middle of the Akihabara electronics district of the same name . On the web spiders of the Tōkyō Metro , the station is marked with the number H-16 for the Hibiya line , for the Tsukuba Express the station is numbered 01 .
history
On November 1, 1890, the station is opened by the Nippon Tetsudō as a freight station, at that time it had a connection to the Ueno station with tracks that are still used today by the Yamanote line . On November 1, 1906, the station fell to the Japanese State Railways and was nationalized. It was not until the opening of Japan's first structural engineering line on November 1, 1925, as part of the Tōhoku main line between Tokyo and Ueno, that passenger operations with the Yamanote line began on that day. On April 1, 1928, an extension of the freight yard is inaugurated, which serves the building line. The station burned down completely on March 10, 1942 as a result of an air attack by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific War . 14 passenger cars and 50 freight cars are also burned. In 1962, on May 31, the station of the Tōkyō Metro Hibiya line opened about 200 m east of the National Japanese Railways station. On February 1, 1975, freight traffic at the station is finally stopped. On August 24, 2004, the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company (MIR) opened the Tsukuba Express station. As part of the new construction of the station for the Tsukuba Express, the JR station above was also extensively renovated.
Type of construction and tracks
JR East platforms
Akihabara station of the East Japan Railway Company is built in the rather rare design of a station as a tower station. The Chūō-Sōbu line crosses in an east-west direction over the Keihin-Tōhoku line and the Yamanote line in a north-south direction. It has a total of six platform tracks, which are divided into two central platforms on the lower level and two side platforms on the upper level. The lines on the lower level are distributed over the platforms according to the direction of travel. On the lower level, the Shinkansen lines run directly east past the platform tracks.
| 1 | ▉ Keihin-Tōhoku line | Ueno • Akabane • Ōmiya |
| 2 | ▉ Yamanote Line | Ueno • Ikebukuro • Shinjuku |
| 3 | ▉ Yamanote Line | Tokyo • Shimbashi • Shinagawa |
| 4th | ▉ Keihin-Tōhoku line | Tokyo • Kawasaki • Yokohama |
| 5 | ▉ Chūō-Sōbu line | Shinjuku • Nakano • Mitaka |
| 6th | ▉ Chūō-Sōbu line | Funabashi • Tsudanuma • Chiba |
Platforms Tōkyō Metro
The underground station of the Tōkyō Metro Hibiya line is located about 200 m east of the tracks of the Keihin-Tōhoku and Yamanote lines and run parallel to them in a north-south direction under the national road 4. The station is completely underground in the The most common type of construction built as a through station. It consists of two underground levels in the first the station and track accesses, in the second the track systems. The tracks run along two side platforms.
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 Hibiya lineage
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Ginza • Roppongi • Naka-Meguro |
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Hibiya lineage
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Ueno • Minowa • Kita-Senju |
Tsukuba Express platforms
The Tsukuba Express station was built by the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company underground under JR Akihabara Station. The station is built as a terminus and forms the beginning of the Tsukuba Express. The tracks at the station run in an east-west direction and serve a single central platform. The station is accessible via the JR station and also has entrances in the immediate vicinity of the entrances to the Hibiya line. In addition, some of the trains are parked on the platforms outside normal operating hours at night. At the moment (as of September 2008) an extension of the line to Tokyo station is also being discussed, which would turn the station into a through station if realized.
| 1 - 2 | ▉ Tsukuba Express TX | Asakusa (03) • Kita-senju (05) • Tsukuba (20) |
Lines
The station is served by three lines of the JR East, a line of the Tōkyō Metro and the Tsukuba-Express of the Metropolitan Intercity Railway (MIR).
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Surroundings
see main article : Akihabara
The area around the station is mainly characterized by the electronics district of the same name. There is a large number of department stores and small retailers here, which mainly offer a wide range of consumer electronics . Akihabara is also one of the centers of otaku culture, as many anime , manga and merchandise stores have opened here and maid cafes can also be found here. The otaku culture is also reflected in word creations such as Akiba-Kei ( e.g. Akihabara style ).
The station and its surroundings are also the setting for the Densha Otoko series .
use
In 2014, the station was used by an average of 241,063 passengers per day, making it 9th out of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014. The Tōkyō Metro's Hibiya line was used by an average of 121,225 passengers a day at the station in 2014. The station ranks 24th among the most frequently used stations on the Tōkyō Metro in 2014. In 2014, the Tsukuba Express was used by an average of 61,725 passengers at the station per day.
Web links
- Official JR East website for the station
- Official website of the Tōkyō Metro for the station
- Official website of the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company for the station
Footnotes
- ↑ http://smt.blogs.com/mari_diary/2006/05/otaku_fashion_h.html Otaku fashion has changed?
- ↑ Passengers boarding in Akihabara. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
- ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 9
- ↑ http://www.tokyometro.jp/corporate/enterprise/habenger_rail/transportation/züge/index.html Source: Tōkyō Metro, rank 24
- ↑ http://www.mir.co.jp/company/number.html Source: Tsukuba-Express, 1st place