Ichigaya train station
| Ichigaya ( 市 ケ 谷 ) | |
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 Ichigaya station on Sotobori (July 2015)
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (railroad), 6 (subway) |
| abbreviation | JB15 |
| opening | March 6, 1895 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Chiyoda |
| prefecture | Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 41 '30 " N , 139 ° 44' 10" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 12 m TP |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Ichigaya Station ( Jap. 市ケ谷駅 , Ichigaya-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshu . He is from the railway company JR East operates and is located in the district of Chiyoda in Tokyo . The connected underground stations of the companies Tōkyō Metro and Toei bear the same name .
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Ichigaya is a major traffic junction, named after the district of the same name in the central Chiyoda district, where four different railway lines intersect on different levels. The Chūō-Sōbu line of the JR East railway company runs above ground from Chiba via Akihabara to Chiba . This runs parallel to the tracks of the Chūō main line and the Chūō high-speed railway line , but their trains do not stop here.
The subway company Tōkyō Metro operates the Yūrakuchō line from Wakōshi to Shin-Kiba and the Namboku line from Meguro to Akabane-iwabuchi . There is also the Shinjuku Line of the Toei Subway from Shinjuku to Moto-Yawata . Two Toei Bus lines and a minibus line operated by the district administration stop at the station .
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The ground-level JR station extends along the south bank of the Sotobori (former outer moat of Edo ). The Yasukuni Shrine , the Japanese Ministry of Defense , the Nihon Ki-in and Sony Music Entertainment headquarters and various universities are all nearby . The layout is oriented from northeast to southwest and has four tracks. The northern pair of tracks opens up a covered central platform , while the southern pair of tracks has no platforms.
The station building has the shape of a riding station that spans the entire complex. Pedestrian tunnels (some equipped with a moving walkway ) provide connections between the train station and the three underground subway lines. Directly below the station is the north-south oriented subway station of the Yūrakuchō line, which has a central platform with platform screen doors. The trains of the Namboku Line stop north of the Sotobori, on a central platform facing from northeast to southwest (but without platform screen doors). A service track runs between these two lines. The Shinjuku Line runs from west to east under Yasukuni-dori Street and has a subway station with two side platforms .
In the 2018 fiscal year, an average of 63,066 passengers used the JR station every day. The average daily passenger volume at subway stations in fiscal 2017 was 54,107 on the Yūrakuchō Line, 20,268 on the Namboku Line and 48,420 on the Shinjuku Line.
history
After the private railway company Kōbu Tetsudō had put the section between Shinjuku and Iidabashi into operation on October 8, 1894 , it opened the Ichigaya station in between on April 3, 1895. After the Railway Nationalization Act came into force , the Railway Authority (later the Railway Ministry ) took over operations on the line on October 1, 1906. As part of the privatization of the Japanese State Railways , the station became the property of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 .
The Teito Kōsokudo Kōtsū Eidan ( Eidan for short, known as the Tōkyō Metro since privatization in 2004 ) opened the first section of the Yūrakuchō line between Ikebukuro and Ginza-itchōme on October 30, 1974 , bringing Ichigaya Station to the Tokyo underground for the first time. Railway network was connected. With the opening of the section Iwamotochō -Shinjuku of the Shinjuku line by the Tokyo Prefecture Transportation Office (Toei) on March 16, 1980 Ichigaya became a subway junction. Finally, the Namboku line also got a subway station here when the Eidan opened the Komagome - Yotsuya section on March 26, 1996 .
Adjacent train stations
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| Iidabashi |
.svg){kind=logo} JR East Chūō-Sōbu Line |
Yotsuya | ||
| Iidabashi |
 Namboku Line Tōkyō Metro |
Yotsuya | ||
| Iidabashi |
Yūrakuchō Line Tōkyō Metro |
Kōjimachi | ||
| Akebonobashi |
 Shinjuku Line Toei |
Kudanshita | ||
Web links
- JR East Station Information (Japanese)
- Tokyo Metro Station Information (Japanese)
- Toei Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 各 駅 の 乗車 人員. JR East , 2018, accessed November 18, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ Tokyo Statistical Yearbook. Tokyo Metropolitan Government , 2018, accessed November 19, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 運輸 開業 免 許 状 下 付. In: Official Gazette. National Library of Parliament, April 6, 1895, accessed November 19, 2019 (Japanese).
- ^ Tokyo. urbanrail.net, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 .