Sugamo train station
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4 (2 per company) |
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| City / municipality | Toshima |
| prefecture | Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 44 '1 " N , 139 ° 44' 22" E |
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The Sugamo Station ( Jap. 巣鴨駅 , Sugamo-eki ) is one of the northernmost stations of the annular Yamanote Line . It lies in Toshima in Tokyo , Japan . The station is also served by Toei with the Mita line, in the network plan this is called I-15 .
history
On April 1, 1903, the Sugamo station was opened as a freight yard . A little over 6 years later, on October 12, 1909, the Yamanote line made its first stop at the station. On December 27, 1968, the Mita line station opens. After exactly 76 years, freight operations at the station ceased on March 31, 1979.
The station has been extensively renovated since June 1, 2007, including the construction of a five-storey station building. The construction work should be finished by October 31, 2009.
Type of construction and tracks
The stations of both the JR East and the Toei are built in the most common design as through stations. Both have a single central platform which is approached by the respective line. The tracks of the Yamanote line run above ground in a southwest-northeast direction, directly south of the Yamanote tracks, the tracks of the Shōnan-Shinjuku line run past the station.
The tracks of the Mita line run south-west of the JR East platform underground under the Hakusan-dōri ( 白山 通 り ) of national road 17.
JR East platform
| 1 | ▉ Yamanote Line | Tabata • Ueno • Tokyo |
| 2 | ▉ Yamanote Line | Ikebukuro • Shinjuku • Shibuya |
Toei platform
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 Mita line
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Nishi-Takashimadaira (I-27) |
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Mita line
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Ōtemachi (I-09) • Hibiya (I-08) • Meguro (I-01) |
Lines
The station is served by the JR East Yamanote Line and Toei's Mita Line. The colors used in the table below correspond to the color codes of the lines assigned by the respective company.
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| Sengoku (I-14) |
 Mita Line (I-15) Toei |
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Surroundings
To the north of the station is the long Jizō-dōri ( 地 蔵 通 り ) shopping street , which is popular with the elderly. Popularly this area is also called Grandmother's Harajuku ( お ば あ ち ゃ ん の 原宿 , Obā-chan no Harajuku ).
At the south end of Jizō-dōri is a Buddhist temple with a cemetery, which is dedicated to Jizō . During a ritual washing of the statues there, the faithful pray for health and freedom from suffering.
use
In 2014, the Yamanote line at the station was used by an average of 75,801 passengers per day, making it 58th of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations on the JR East in 2014. In 2014, the Mita line was used by an average of 46,061 boarding and 46,930 disembarking passengers per day.
Footnotes and individual references
- ^ Sugamo. In: tokyo-tokyo.com. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Passengers boarding in Sugamo. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
- ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/habenger/index.html Source: JR East, rank 58
- ↑ http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/subway/kanren/ passtgers.html# b Source: Toei, Mita line passenger numbers 2014
