Shin-Ōkubo Railway Station

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Shin-Ōkubo Railway Station
platform
Shin-Ōkubo Railway Station
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
opening November 15, 1914
location
City / municipality Shinjuku
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 42 '8 "  N , 139 ° 42' 0"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 42 '8 "  N , 139 ° 42' 0"  E
Railway lines

Yamanote line

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Exterior view of Shin-Ōkubo station

The Shin-Okubo Station ( Jap. 新大久保駅 , Shin-Okubo-eki ) is located in Shinjuku in Tokyo , Japan .

history

On November 14, 1914, the station was opened as a passenger station.

On January 26, 2001, the station received sad public attention when a 47-year-old photographer from Yokohama and a 26-year-old student from Korea were killed while trying to rescue a drunk Japanese man who had fallen from the platform. All three people were hit by a train on the Yamanote Line and died in the accident. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori and Foreign Minister Yōhei Kōno attended the funeral service . In 2007, Anata wo Wasurenai made a biographical film about the life of the Korean student who died.

Type of construction and tracks

The station is built in the most common type of train station in the form of a through station. It has one entrance and two tracks that approach a single central platform.

Platforms

1   Yamanote Line IkebukuroTabataUeno
2  Yamanote Line ShinjukuShibuyaShinagawa

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.

Lines
Shinjuku Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East
Takadanobaba

Surroundings

The train station is located near the so-called Koreatown , one of the many Koreans who have immigrated mainly from South Korea in recent years. In addition to the Koreans, immigrants from China, Taiwan and other countries in Southeast Asia also live there, so the area has an unusually high proportion of foreigners for Japan of around 10%.

About a kilometer south is the large Shinjuku train station . In about five minutes you can walk to the entertainment district of Kabukichō and in about three minutes to walk to Ōkubo station on the Chūō-Sōbu line .

use

In 2014, the station was used by an average of 39,814 passengers per day, making it 106th out of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014. The station is also only 28th out of 29 stations in terms of the number of passengers at stations on the Yamanote line.

Footnotes and individual references

  1. Funeral rites held for men killed in failed station rescue , The Japan Times, January 30, 2001
  2. Passengers boarding in Shin-Ōkubo. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  3. http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 106

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