Mejiro train station

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Mejiro train station
platform
Mejiro Railway Station platform
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
opening March 16, 1885
location
City / municipality Toshima
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 43 '17 "  N , 139 ° 42' 24"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 43 '17 "  N , 139 ° 42' 24"  E
Railway lines

JR East Yamanote Line

List of train stations in Japan
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The Mejiro Station ( Jap. 目白駅 , Mejiro-eki ) is located in Toshima in Tokyo , Japan .

history

The station was opened on March 16, 1885. Between 1903 and September 20, 1973, the station was operated as a freight station in addition to passenger operations. On October 12, 1909, the Yamanote line stopped at the station for the first time. The station was renovated for the first time in November 1919, and a new renovation began on July 29, 2000.

Type of construction and tracks

The station is built in the most common design of a station in the form of a through station. The station is only served by the Yamanote line and serves a single central platform .

The station is one of the smallest on the Yamanote Line, but it is home to a small number of shops, including konbinis , a bakery and cafes. After the cessation of freight traffic and the dismantling of the tracks, the "Hotel Mets Mejiro" was built on the open area.

Platforms

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

Lines

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

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 Lines
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Takadanobaba Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East 		Ikebukuro

Surroundings

In front of the main exit of the train station, you can see far to the horizon, a view that is rarely found in Tokyo at ground level.

There are several schools and universities in the immediate vicinity of the train station, which is why a not inconsiderable proportion of the daily passengers make up schoolchildren and students at the schools in question. These include the Gakushūin University , the Nihon Joshi Daigaku , the Mejiro University of Design and the Japanese Foreign Language Institute.

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a philatelic museum can also be found near the train station .

Across the busy Mejiro-dori street is a posh and quiet residential area. On the street running west from the station there are multi-family houses and some elaborately built villas that have been built in the last decades. Directly from the exit of the station, one can see the busy center of Ikebukuro and the high-rise Sunshine 60 in the distance .

use

In 2014, the station was used by an average of 37,190 passengers per day, making it 115th of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014.

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Passengers boarding in Mejiro. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  2. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 115

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