Gotanda train station

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Gotanda
View from the Ikegami platform onto the tracks of the Yamanote line
View from the Ikegami platform onto the tracks of the Yamanote line
Data
Design Tower station
Platform tracks 6 (2 per company)
opening
  • October 15, 1911 (JR East)
  • June 17, 1928 (Tōkyū)
  • November 15, 1968 (Toei)
location
City / municipality Shinagawa
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 37 '35 "  N , 139 ° 43' 24"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 37 '35 "  N , 139 ° 43' 24"  E
Railway lines

List of train stations in Japan
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Ikegami line platform
Access to the JR East tracks

The Gotanda Station ( Jap. 五反田駅 , Gotanda-eki ) is located in Shinagawa in Tokyo . The station is a tower station and is located directly above the national road 1, whereby the crossing Ikegami line begins at the station and the tracks are only a few meters in an easterly direction.

history

On October 15, 1911, the station for the Japanese National Railways (now JR East ) opened and served by the Yamanote Line . On June 17, 1928, the station of the Ikegami Electric Railway (now Tōkyū Corporation) opens for the Ikegami line. During the Second World War, the station was destroyed by fire as a result of an air raid on May 24, 1945. On November 15, 1968, the Toei Company opened Gotanda Station for subway line No. 1, which 10 years later was renamed the Asakusa line on July 1, 1978 .

Type of construction and tracks

The station is built in the seldom found form of a tower station. Each of the lines approaching the station has two tracks that are served from a central platform . The two tracks of the Yamanote Line run in a north-south direction. The tracks of the Asakusa Line underground under National Road 1 in an east-west direction. The tracks of the Ikegami line cross the JR tracks south of the platform above their level, also in an east-west direction, but are only continued a few meters to the east, since the line begins at the station.

JR East platforms

1 ▉  Yamanote Line Shinagawa • Tokyo • Ueno
2 ▉  Yamanote Line Shibuya • Shinjuku • Ikebukuro

Toei platforms

1 Line color Asakusa line Nishi-Magome (A-01)
2 Line color Asakusa line Daimon (A-09) • Asakusa (A-19) • Oshiage (A-20)

Platforms Tōkyū

1/2 ▉  Ikegami line Togoshi-Ginza • Hatanodai • Kamata

Lines

Gotanda Station is served by the JR East on the Yamanote Line. In addition, the Ikegami line of the Tōkyū Corporation begins at the station, with trains running in the direction of Kamata . From the Toei, this station is served by the Asakusa line. The colors used in the table below correspond to the line color codes assigned by the respective company.

←
 Lines
→
Ōsaki Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East 		Meguro
Beginning Ikegami line Ikegami line
Tōkyū 		Ōsaki-Hirokōji
Togoshi (A-04) Asakusa line Asakusa Line (A-05)
Toei 		Takanawadai (A-06)

Surroundings

In the vicinity of the train station are the headquarters of Alpine Electronics , the largest branch of Book Off (a second-hand bookstore that also sells software, DVDs and CDs) in Tokyo Prefecture and the Nemunoki Garden.

use

In 2014, the JR station was used by an average of 132,617 passengers per day, making it 24th of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014. The Toei Asakusa line was used in Gotanda by an average of 32,146 boarding and 32,857 disembarking passengers per day in the 2014 financial year. In 2007, Tōkyū Corporation's Ikegami line used an average of 66,829 boarding and 36,505 disembarking passengers per day.

Web links

Commons : Gotanda Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Passengers boarding in Gotanda. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  2. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 24
  3. ↑ http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/subway/kanren/züge.html#a Passenger numbers on the Toei Asakusa line
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 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. Passenger numbers on the Tōkyū Ikegami line  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tokyu.co.jp