Chiba train station

Chiba train station
Entrance to JR Chiba Station
Data
Design	Wedge Station (JR) Tower Station (Chiba Monorail and Keisei-Chiba)
Platform tracks	10 ( JR ) 4 ( Chiba Monorail ) 2 ( Keisei Dentetsu )
abbreviation	JR: チ ハ ( Chi-Ha )
opening	July 20, 1894 (at the old location)
location
City / municipality	Chiba
prefecture	Chiba
Country	Japan
Coordinates	35 ° 36 '46 "  N , 140 ° 6' 52"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 36 '46 "  N , 140 ° 6' 52"  E
Railway lines
JR Sōbu main line Sotobo line City of Chiba Chiba monorail Keisei Dentetsu Keisei Chiba Line
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The Chiba Station ( Japanese 千葉 駅 , Chiba-eki ) is located in the Chūō ("center") district of the Japanese city of Chiba in Chiba Prefecture . It is the city's most important railway junction and historically one of the nucleus of the city's growth.

history

On July 20, 1894, the station was opened on the Sōbu main line of the Sōbu Tetsudō railway north of the municipality of Chiba, which had emerged only five years earlier through the merger of several villages around Chiba Castle . In February 1896, the Bōsō Tetsudō connected the station as the end point of the Bōsō line (today: Sotobō line ) from Ōami (in today's Ōamishirasato ) to the southeast of the prefecture.

In 1907, both railway lines were nationalized and the station became the property of the State Railways ( kokutetsu ). In the early 20th century, Chiba quickly grew into a big city, and the first industrial companies settled there. The importance of the station as a hub for passenger and freight traffic grew: All railway lines from the east of the prefecture in the direction of Tokyo ran through the station. The Keiyō Line , which runs further south, was not opened until the late 20th century.

The original station was further east compared to today, and the tracks of the Sotobo line led from the southwest into the station instead of from the southeast as it is today. Trains from the direction of Tokyo, which continued on the Sotobō Line, had to change direction in the station. In 1963 the station was moved to its current location and laid out as a wedge station where the tracks split from the west, i.e. from the direction of Tokyo; the change of direction became superfluous.

The new Chiba station was immediately north of the Keisei Dentetsu Chiba line . In 1967 the company opened the “station at the Chiba State Railroad Station” ( 国 鉄 千葉 駅 前 駅 , Kokutetsu-Chiba-eki-mae-eki ), which in 1987 - after the privatization of kokutetsu - was renamed Keisei-Chiba Station; the former Keisei-Chiba station was then called Chiba-Chūō ("Chiba-Center").

From 1975 onwards, state railroad freight trains stopped calling at Chiba station. In 1987 the state railway was split up and privatized, the station became the property of JR Higashi-Nihon ( JR East ).

The Chiba Monorail station opened in 1991, and in 1995 additional tracks were laid here for a second line.

The station has been extensively rebuilt since 2010. The renovated station is due to open in 2015.

Type of construction and tracks

JR tracks and station building from the north-west

The JR Chiba station is designed as a wedge station : seen from the northwest, the Sotobō line branches off to the right from the Sōbu main line, the station building is at the junction between the two lines. The tracks of the Chiba Monorail, designed as a suspension railway , cross the Sotobō line on the east side of the station building, where the platforms are, and then run parallel to the Sōbu main line to the northeast. The station building is therefore bordered on three sides by train tracks. The southern part of the monorail platforms is already above the Keisei-Chiba station, which thus becomes the tower station ; the Keisei-Chiba line here from the west runs parallel to the Sotobō line to the southeast after the station exit.

The JR station has two island platforms on the north side with four platform tracks, on which the trains of the Sōbu main, Sōbu express and Narita lines stop. The trains of the Chuō-Sōbu line to the west and the Sotobō and Uchibō line from the east end at the three island platforms with six tracks on the south side. In addition, some south-branching trains of the Sōbu express train line stop here. The Chiba Monorail station has four tracks on two central platforms: Lines 1 and 2 already have separate tracks here and share to the east of the station. Keisei Chiba station is a stop with two outer platforms, the Keisei station building is on the north side of the tracks.

In addition to the platform entrances and counters, the JR station building with its trapezoidal floor plan houses a fashion department store, a fast-food chain and smaller shops. Several local bus routes operate in a large square on the east side. Another part of the station is located in the south under the tracks of the Sotobo line. To the south is the Keisei station building, which also houses a department store belonging to the Sogō chain .

Lines

The Chiba station is served by the express trains Shiosai (Tokyo / Shinjuku-Chōshi), Azusa (Chiba-Matsumoto), Shinjuku-Sazanami (Shinjuku-Tateyama) and Shinjuku-Kawashio (Shinjuku-Awakamogawa), which only run occasionally about every hour . The airport shuttle Narita Express and the airport Narita of the Sōbu express train line also stop in Chiba. The train station is connected by the following lines for regional and commuter traffic:

←	Lines			→
Inage		Sōbu express train line JR East		Tsuga Soga
Beginning		JR East Narita Line		Tsuga
Nishi-Chiba		JR East Chūō-Sōbu Line		The End
Beginning		Sōbu main line, JR East		Higashi-Chiba
Beginning		Uchibo Line, JR East		Hon-Chiba
Beginning		JR East Sotobo Line		Hon-Chiba
Shiyakushō-mae		Line 1 Chiba Monorail		Sakae-cho
Shiyakushō-mae		Line 2 Chiba Monorail		Chiba-Koen
Shin-Chiba		Keisei-Chiba Line Keisei Dentetsu at Keisei-Chiba Station		Chiba-Chūō

Surroundings

Downtown Chiba connects to the south and south-east with numerous high-rise buildings used by department stores, corporate headquarters and the public administration of the prefecture and city of Chiba. In the northwest and north, beyond the shopping streets, directly at the train station, there are mainly densely built-up residential areas around Chiba Park ( Chiba-kōen ). In the direction of the port in the southwest and west, where there are industrial settlements and an urban development project, new high-rise buildings along the busy Chiba-dōri are pushing back the old residential and commercial buildings.

use

With an average of 106,901 boarding times a day, JR East's Chiba station ranks 29th of all the company's stations. 10,800 (Chiba Monorail) The Keisei-Chiba station had an average of 23,866 boarding and alighting stations in 2007, ranking 17th among the Keisei Dentetsu stations. Less than half, 10,320 passengers, used time cards. In 2006, Chiba station was the most used station for the monorail with around 10,800 boarding stations.

On weekdays 550 JR trains, 363 Chiba Monorail trains and 208 Keisei Dentetsu trains serve the station.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chiba Station Building to undergo major renovation. East Japan Railway Company (press release), December 8, 2009, accessed May 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ JR East: Average daily entries 2007
3. ↑ City of Chiba, Dētatchi statistics portal : Average daily entries 2006 ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2006 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. 
4. ↑ Keisei Dentetsu: average daily entries and exits time tickets and single trips in 2007
5. ↑ Timetable Chiba station on weekdays
6. ↑ Chiba Monorail timetable on weekdays ( memento of the original from August 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Keisei Dentetsu timetable

Web links

Commons : Chiba Station  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• JR East: Chiba Station