Maihama Railway Station

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Maihama Railway Station
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Maihama Station (JR Platform)
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
opening December 1, 1988
location
City / municipality Urayasu
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 38 '10 "  N , 139 ° 53' 2"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 38 '10 "  N , 139 ° 53' 2"  E
Railway lines

JR East : Keiyō Line

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The Maihama Station ( Jap. 舞浜駅 , Maihama-eki ) is located in Urayasu in Chiba Prefecture , Japan . It is located directly north of the Tokyo Disney Resort and is mainly used by its visitors.

history

The station opened on December 1, 1988. Since then, Tokyo Disney Resort has also had rail access. As a station on the JR East Keiyō Line, there is a direct connection to Tokyo Station .

With the opening of the north exit on July 23, 2001, the station received its present appearance.

Type of construction and tracks

Disney Resort Line platform

The station is built in the style of a through station. It has two tracks that are used from a central platform . In addition to the connection to local public transport with the JR lines, the terminal of the Disney Resort Line monorail is located in the western part of the station , which serves as a feeder to the individual parts of the Tokyo Disney Resort .

There is also a hotel called Dream Gate Maihama in the station building.

JR East platforms

1 ▉  Keiyō line Nishi-Funabashi • Soga
▉  Musashino line Nishi-Funabashi • Minami-Urawa • Fuchū-Honmachi
(only stops here on weekends)
2 ▉  Keiyō line Tokyo
▉  Musashino line Shin-Kiba • Tokyo
(only stops here on weekends)

Lines

The station is served by the JR East Lines Keiyō and Musashino. There is also a connection to the privately operated Disney Resort Line . The colors used in the table below correspond to the color codes of the lines assigned by JR East.

←
 Lines
→
Kasairinkaikōen Keiyō line JR East Keiyō Line
 Shin-Urayasu
Shin-Kiba Musashino line Musashino Line
JR East
only stops on weekends 		Shin-Urayasu

Station melody

In the period from July 14, 2004 to April 14, 2008, an excerpt from Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah was used as the station melody . This title is used, among other things, in the Disney film Song of the South from 1946. The selection of this title is intended to express the connection between the train station (i.e. spatial proximity) and the Tokyo Disney Resort . On April 15, 2008, the 25th anniversary of the resort's opening, the title was replaced by an excerpt from The dream goes on . This title was composed and written as part of the resort's 25th anniversary celebrations. The use of this melody as a station melody is limited to the anniversary year.

use

In 2017, the station was used by an average of 79,063 passengers per day, making it 57th out of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2017. The majority of the passengers are visitors to the nearby Tokyo Disney Resort .

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Passengers boarding in Maihama. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  2. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/same/index.html Source: JR East Passenger Numbers 2017, Rank 57

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