Okachimachi station

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Okachimachi station
North entrance
North entrance to Okachimachi station
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 4th
opening 11/1/1925
location
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 42 ′ 27 "  N , 139 ° 46 ′ 29"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 42 ′ 27 "  N , 139 ° 46 ′ 29"  E
Railway lines

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The okachimachi station ( Jap. 御徒町駅 , Okachimachi-eki ) is located in Taitō in Tokyo , Japan .

history

The station was inaugurated on November 1, 1925 by the Japanese State Railways with the completion of the last missing section of the Yamanote line . On January 22, 1990, an accident with 10 slightly injured people occurred during construction work near the station. Due to the tunnel construction work for the extension of the Shinkansen route to Tokyo , the pavement of a street has sagged and several vehicles fell into the depths.

Type of construction and tracks

The station is built in the most common design as a through station. It has a total of four platform tracks, which are distributed over two central platforms .

1 ▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line Tokyo • Kawasaki • Yokohama
2 ▉  Yamanote Line Tokyo • Shinagawa • Shibuya
3 ▉  Yamanote Line Ueno • Ikebukuro • Shinjuku
4th ▉  Keihin-Tōhoku line Tabata • Akabane • Ōmiya

Lines

Okachimachi Station is served by the JR East Keihin-Tōhoku and Yamanote Lines. The colors used in the table below are the color codes of the lines assigned by JR East.

←
 Lines
→
Ueno Keihin-Tōhoku Line Keihin Tōhoku Line,
JR East 		Akihabara
Ueno Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East 		Akihabara

Surroundings

The station is at the southern end of a long shopping street that always runs along the west side of the tracks and extends to Ueno station . This area, called ameyoko ( ア メ 横 ), was one of the most important black markets in Tokyo in the period after World War II . Today it's a normal business district.

use

In 2014, the station was used by an average of 67,502 passengers per day, making it 64th of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014.

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ http://www.bousai.metro.tokyo.jp/japanese/knowledge/pdf/tokyomamoro/english/protect_our45.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Other disasters@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bousai.metro.tokyo.jp  
  2. ^ Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond: The Rough Guide to Japan. Rough Guides, 2001, ISBN 1-85828-699-9 , p. 120.
  3. ↑ Passengers boarding in Okachimachi. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  4. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 64

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