Ochanomizu Railway Station
| Ochanomizu Railway Station | |
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 East exit of the station as seen from Hijiri Bridge:
JR station (right) and Marunouchi line across the Kanda |
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| Design | Through station |
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| opening | December 31, 1904 |
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| City / municipality | [[* Chiyoda (JR & Shin-Ochanomizu Station)
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| prefecture | Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 41 '59 " N , 139 ° 45' 50" E |
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| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Ochanomizu Station ( Jap. 御茶ノ水駅 , Ochanomizu-eki ) is situated on both banks of the river Kanda in the communities (special districts) Chiyoda and Bunkyō in Tokyo , Japan .
It consists of three operationally and spatially separate parts: Above ground on the south bank of the Kanda is the JR East station , next to it is the underground station Shin-Ochanomizu ("New Ochanomizu") on the Chiyoda line of the Tōkyō Metro . Under the north bank is the station of the Marunouchi line , which crosses the river above ground on the east side.
history
The Ochanomizu station was opened in 1904 by the Kōbu Tetsudō ("Kōbu Railway") as the starting point of their route to Hachiōji . Previously, the line had its end point in Iidamachi station, about a kilometer further west between the current Iidabashi and Suidōbashi stations. Two years later, in 1906, the railway line was nationalized, became the property of the state railway ( kokutetsu ) and became part of the Chūō high-speed railway line . In 1908, the extension of the line by a few hundred meters to Shōheibashi station led to Ochanomizu becoming a through station.
The surrounding districts were badly affected by the great Kanto earthquake in 1923. During the reconstruction, the Hijiri Bridge over the Kanda was built on the east side of the station in 1928. Ochanomizu University, previously directly north of the train station, relocated to Ōtsuka in Toshima .
In 1932 the state railway opened the extension of the Sōbu main line from Ryōgoku station to Ochanomizu. When the station was rebuilt, it was essentially given its current shape, which enables a change from the Chūō-Sōbu- to the Chūō-line on the same platform by grouping the tracks of both lines according to the direction of travel. Smooth traffic with high train frequencies is made possible by the fact that the branch of the Sōbu line at the east end of the station was designed as a crossing-free transition. In 1933 the line was expanded to four tracks on the west side, so that continuous trains of the Sōbu line to the Chūō line could use their own tracks.
When the state railway was divided up and privatized in 1987, the station was transferred to JR East.
In 1999 the Ministry of Transport took him to the "Selection of 100 train stations in the Kantō region" ( 関 東 の 駅 百 選 , Kantō no eki hyakusen ).
Ochanomizu Metro Station
On January 20, 1954, the first section of the Marunouchi subway line between Ikebukuro and Ochanomizu was opened. The terminus was built just a few meters below the Sotobori-dōri on the steep north bank; to change between the new subway and the state railway you had to use the Ochanomizu Bridge over the Kanda. When the subway station became a through station two years later by being extended to Awajichō, the Kanda track crossing was created above ground. Today, Ochanomizu Metro Station is number M-20.
Shin-Ochanomizu Subway Station
With the completion of the first section of the Chiyoda line between Kita-Senjū and Ōtemachi, the Shin-Ochanomizu station was opened on December 20, 1969. After the line was expanded to its current form, the station is numbered C-12.
Type of construction and tracks
The JR station is built in the style of a through station. The station building is located at the west entrance above the platforms directly on the Ochanomizu Bridge; Another entrance is at the Hijiri Bridge. The four tracks are on two island platforms: trains going west stop at the south platform, trains going east stop at the north.
| 1 | ▉ Chūō express train line | Shinjuku • Takao |
| ▉ Chūō line | Shinjuku • Mitaka (early in the morning and late in the evening only) | |
| 2 | ▉ Chūō-Sōbu line | Shinjuku • Mitaka |
| 3 | ▉ Chūō-Sōbu line | Akihabara • Chiba |
| 4th | ▉ Chūō express train line | Kanda • Tokyo |
Ochanomizu Metro Station consists of two exterior platforms:
| 1 |
 Marunouchi line
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Ginza • Shinjuku • Nakano-Fujimichō • Ogikubo |
| 2 |
Marunouchi line
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Kōrakuen • Ikebukuro |
The Shin-Ochanomizu station is also in the form of a through station, it is located southeast of the JR station under the Hongō-dōri . Underground passages connect it to Awajichō and Ogawamachi subway stations; this route is also used by passengers transferring between the Chiyoda and Marunouchi lines.
| 1 |
 Chiyoda line
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Ōtemachi • Hibiya • Yoyogi-Uehara |
| 2 |
Chiyoda line
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Nishi-Nippori • Kita-Senju • Kita-Ayase |
Surroundings
Opposite the JR station on the north bank of the Kanda are the Confucian temple Yushima Seidō and the university hospital of the "Medical and Dental University Tokyo" ( Tōkyō Ika Shika Daigaku ). A little off the river are the Kanda Myōjin shrine , the headquarters of the Japanese Football Association and the associated football museum.
South of the train station is the Orthodox "Resurrection Cathedral Tokyo" ( 東京 復活 大 聖堂 , Tōkyō fukkatsu taiseidō ), better known as St. Nikolai Cathedral, the Surugadai main campus of Meiji University and some faculties of Nihon Daigaku .
Lines
Ochanomizu Station is only served by the following regional transport lines:
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| Kanda |
.svg){kind=logo} JR East Chūō rapid transit line |
Yotsuya | ||
| Akihabara |
JR East Chūō-Sōbu Line |
Suidōbashi | ||
| Awajichō |
 Marunouchi Line Tōkyō Metro |
Hongō 3-chōme | ||
| Ōtemachi |
Chiyoda Line Tōkyō Metro at Shin-Ochanomizu Station |
Yushima | ||
The JR station is the last option between the Chūō-Sōbu and the Chūō lines in an easterly direction before the two divide. Early in the morning and late in the evening, the station is also the starting and ending point of local trains on the Chūō line, which, like the Chūō-Sōbu line, stop at every station.
use
With 107,205 passengers boarding every day, JR Ochanomizu station is ranked 28th of all JR East stations and the most popular station on the Chūō line between Shinjuku and Tokyo. H. within the Yamanote Line . Among the stations of the Tōkyō Metro, Ochanomizu ranked 65th with 54,018 daily boardings and Shin-Ochanomizu ranked 36th with 95,890 passengers.
The station is served on weekdays by 1,070 trains of the JR, 672 trains of the Tōkyō Metro and 466 trains of the Tōkyō Metro Shin-Ochanomizu.
Web links
- JR East: Ochanomizu Station
Individual evidence
- ↑ MLIT , Kantō Transport Department: List of Kantō no eki hyakusen ( memento of the original from December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ JR East: average daily entries 2007
- ↑ Tōkyō Metro: average daily entries and exits in 2007 ( memento of the original from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Timetable train station Ochanomizu on weekdays
- ↑ Timetable Marunouchi Line Ochanomizu Station on weekdays
- ↑ Timetable Chiyoda Line Shin-Ochanomizu Station on weekdays
