Harajuku Railway Station

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Harajuku Railway Station
main building
Main building of Harajuku station
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation JY19
opening October 30, 1906
location
City / municipality Shibuya
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 40 ′ 13 "  N , 139 ° 42 ′ 10"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 13 "  N , 139 ° 42 ′ 10"  E
Railway lines

JR East : Yamanote Line

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The Harajuku Station ( Jap. 原宿駅 , Harajuku-eki ) is a station of the JR East Yamanote Line in Shibuya in Tokyo , Japan . The station lends its name to the Harajuku area to the east ; however, this is not officially recorded on any map. The district in which the train station is located is officially called Jingūmae ( 神宮 前 , in front of the shrine ).

history

  • October 30, 1906: The station opens as a freight yard
  • October 12, 1909: Connection to the Yamanote Line
  • August 1926: First use as an imperial train station by the Taishō-Tennō
  • February 1, 1941: Freight traffic ceased
  • October 20, 1972: Opening of the nearby Meiji-jingūmae subway station ( 明治 神宮 前 d, German approximately station in front of the Meiji Shrine ) on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and Fukutoshin Line
  • March 20, 2020: Opening of a new building made of glass and concrete next to the old station

Type of construction and tracks

The building used until 2020

The station is built as a through station in the most common design of a station , the two tracks of the Yamanote line run here in a north-south direction. The station originally had a central platform , only for major events a makeshift platform was set up for the trains to Shinjuku. In the course of the redesign, the makeshift platform was made permanent, so that since 2020 a platform has been available for each direction of travel.

In June 2016, JR East announced that in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, a new station building should be built by then. The wooden station building from 1925, which will be used until 2020, is to be demolished after the Olympics and replaced by a modern building in the same style. It was most recently the oldest wooden station building in the Tokyo area that was still in operation.

A special platform for the imperial train is located a little north of the public station, as traditionally all journeys of the imperial train start and end at Harajuku station.

The Meiji-jingūmae station of the Tokyo Metro is located near the Harajuku station and is partially marked as a transfer station on web spiders. However, the stations are about 200 meters apart, so a direct change between the two lines is not possible.

Platforms
1 ▉  Yamanote Line Shibuya • Shinagawa
2 ▉  Yamanote Line Shinjuku • Ikebukuro

Lines

The station is only served by the JR East Yamanote Line. The color used in the table below is the color code assigned to the line by JR East.

←
 Lines
→
Shibuya Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East 		Yoyogi

Surroundings

Directly west of the train station is the Yoyogi Park ( 代 々 木 公園 , Yoyogi kōen ) with the Meiji Shrine ( 明治 神宮 , Meiji-jingū ). On the way there you can cross a bridge directly south of the train station. On this bridge, so-called lolitas and cosplayers present themselves to their audience every Sunday in order to be photographed.

The Takeshita-dōri shopping street

Takeshita-dōri ( 竹 下 通 り , Takeshita-dōri ) can be reached via the central exit of the station . This pedestrian-only shopping street is very popular with young people and is one of the main attractions of the district. It can often be seen as an incubator for trends that subsequently spread across the country.

View of the Omotesandō

South of the Takeshita-dōri, directly in front of the south exit of the station, is the avenue Omotesandō ( 表 参 道 , Omotesandō ). This street is sometimes called “Tokyo's Champs-Élysées ” because of its splendor . This splendor is due on the one hand to the two-lane avenue and the fact that many expensive fashion labels have set up flagship stores here.

use

In 2014, the station was used by an average of 70,766 passengers per day, making it 62nd out of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations by JR East in 2014.

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Press release JR East, June 8, 2016, https://www.jreast.co.jp/press/2016/20160605.pdf
  2. ↑ Passengers boarding in Harajuku. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  3. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 62

Web links

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