Manseibashi Station

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Manseibashi ( 万世 橋 )
Manseibashi Station original.jpg
View of the train station around 1920
Data
Location in the network End station , from 1919
through station
opening April 1, 1912
Conveyance November 1, 1943
location
City / municipality Chiyoda
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 41 '49 "  N , 139 ° 46' 13"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 41 '49 "  N , 139 ° 46' 13"  E
Height ( SO ) 7  m  TP
Railway lines
List of train stations in Japan
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Manseibashi Station ( Japanese 万世 橋 駅 , Manseibashi-eki ) is the name of two former train stations in the Chiyoda district of the Japanese capital Tokyo . One was an above-ground state railway station and the other was a subway station on the Tokyo subway . They are located on both sides of the Kanda River by the Manseibashi Bridge that gives it its name. The former was the eastern terminus of the Chūō main line running along the south bank from 1912 to 1919 , was shut down in 1943 and served as the location of a railway museum from 1936 to 2007. The underground station on the Ginza line north of the river was only in operation from 1930 to 1931 and is also known as the " Phantom station ". Today trains will pass through both without stopping.

railway station

The private railway company Kōbu Tetsudō had opened the first section of the later Chūō main line from Tachikawa to Shinjuku in 1889 and strove to extend the route further towards the city center. In 1894 it reached to Iidabashi Station , in 1895 to Iidamachi Station and in 1904 to Ochanomizu . The planned extension to Manseibashi in the Kanda district could not be carried out by the Kōbu Tetsudō itself, as it passed into state ownership in 1906 . This task fell to the Railway Authority, which later became the Railway Ministry . It took the new terminal station on April 1, 1912 in operation, then seven years, the eastern terminus of the Chūō Main Line was.

The first reception building was very representative. Similar to Tokyo Station, which was still under construction at the time , it was built from red bricks according to plans by Tatsuno Kingo . It had first and second class waiting rooms , a dining room, a bar and a conference room , as well as a freight elevator . A Tokyo tram ran in the square in front of the station . With the extension of the Chūō main line to Tokyo Station on March 1, 1919, Manseibashi now had the status of an ordinary through station .

The station was destroyed in the Great Kanto earthquake on September 1, 1923, and was replaced by a significantly simpler new building. Due to the opening of the direct rail line between Ueno and Tokyo in 1925, the number of passengers in Manseibashi fell significantly, especially since Akihabara and Kanda stations were only a few minutes' walk away. The Ministry of Railways, which had operated Japan's first railway museum next to Tokyo Station since 1921 , moved the collection to Manseibashi on April 25, 1936. In November 1936, it tore down the reception building and replaced it with a simple hut that served as an office for the museum. The station was shut down on November 1, 1943 and, with the exception of the facilities necessary for museum operation, was demolished.

Two bronze statues on the station forecourt depict Takeo Hirose and Magoshichi Sugino , important figures in the Russo-Japanese War ; they were removed after the end of the Pacific War . After the museum had been looked after by several authorities, from 1971 the Japanese State Railways Cultural Promotion Foundation was responsible for it, from 1987 the privatized railway company JR East . Due to a lack of space and aging facilities, the museum had to close on May 14, 2006. The collection was transferred to the Saitama Railway Museum, which opened in October 2007 . The redesign of the site began in July 2012, with the original brick viaduct forming the basis of the new Maach Ecute office and shop complex , which opened in September 2013. JR East redesigned the former island platform into a café , from where the passing trains can be observed.

  • Destruction after the Great Kanto Earthquake

  • Rebuilt station after 1923

  • The station in 1925

  • Redesigned viaduct

  • Café on the former platform

Subway station

The first section of the Ginza Line between Asakusa and Ueno - also the first subway in Asia - went into operation on December 30, 1927. Two years later, the tunnel reached the north bank of the Kanda, but crossing under the river proved more difficult than expected. In order to still be able to use the already built part of the tunnel, the temporary Manseibashi subway station was opened on January 1, 1930. However, this could only be used to a limited extent due to the gradient and the cornering of the route. From November 21, 1931, the Ginza Line continued half a kilometer to Kanda Station , so that the temporary Manseibashi subway station could be taken out of service.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Casey Baseel: Tokyo subway 'phantom station' Reveals itself to passengers for first time in nearly 90 years. Japan Today, November 30, 2017, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d 万世 橋 駅 の う つ り ね わ り. Tokyo Transport Museum, 2006, archived from the original on January 20, 2007 ; Retrieved January 5, 2020 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 中央 線 神 田 ～ 御 茶 ノ 水 間 の 赤 レ ン ガ 高架橋 に 新 た な 名 所 が 誕生 し ま す！ (PDF, 723 kB) JR East , July 3, 2012, accessed January 5, 2020 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 旧 「万世 橋 駅」 の い ま 交通 博物館 の 休憩 所 は 階段 に カ フ ェ 、 ビ ア バ ー も も の 「今昔」 体 感. Livedoor News, March 1, 2018, accessed January 5, 2020 (Japanese).
  5. ^ Tokyo. urbanrail.net, accessed on January 5, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ 銀座 線. Tōkyō Metro , archived from the original on January 5, 2007 ; Retrieved January 5, 2020 (Japanese).