Tokyo train station

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Tokyo
Tokyo station from marunouchi oazo.JPG
Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks * 10 Shinkansen ( Japan Railways )
opening 1914
location
City / municipality Chiyoda
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 40'52 "  N , 139 ° 46'2"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 40'52 "  N , 139 ° 46'2"  E
Railway lines

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The Tokyo Station ( Jap. 東京駅 , Tōkyō-eki ) is the Tokyo main station and the starting point of almost all Shinkansen -lines. However, the largest or busiest train station in Tokyo is Shinjuku Station . In 2006, an average of 382,242 people used the lines of the JR East, around 92,000 the lines of the JR Tōkai and 140,486 the subway at this station.

Tokyo Station is located in the Chiyoda district in the Marunouchi business district , not far from the Imperial Palace and a little north of the Ginza district.

In addition to the Shinkansen lines, numerous S-Bahn and regional trains as well as an underground line, the Marunouchi line, cross here . What is unusual for a large Japanese train station is the lack of private rail lines. However, these already end in the outskirts. The station is also connected to the nearby Otemachi subway station via an underground passage . Trains on the Tōzai , Chiyoda , Hanzōmon , Marunouchi and Mita lines stop here .

construction

Tokyo Station (2005)
Shinkansen bullet train in Tokyo Station (2013)

The most important station area consists of twenty platforms on a viaduct , which run in a north-south direction. The main entrance is on the west side of the station facing the Imperial Palace in the historic station building opened in 1914. The ten Shinkansen platforms are located on the eastern, city-facing side ( Yaesu-guchi ) of the station. The entire structure is crossed by a predominantly east-west oriented station concourse, which is connected on all sides with further tunnel complexes. On the Yaesu side, department stores are connected to the overall complex.

Outside the main structure are the tunnel stations of the Sōbu / Yokosuka line and the Keiyō line . The former is west of the main building, while the Keiyō line station is a considerable distance south.

The station is equipped with disabled toilets. The platforms can be reached by wheelchair via elevators.

history

Entrance building in 1914

The station was designed by Tatsuno Kingo , who also built the nearby Bank of Japan , which was also designed in the neo-baroque style. An alternative design by the German railway engineer Franz Baltzer , who was then active in Japan and who oversaw the construction of the line to Shimbashi , was rejected as "too Japanese".

Tokyo Station was opened in 1914 after the completion of a rail link between the old Tōkaidō line Shimbashi station and the Ueno station in the north. At the same time, the other terminal stations were connected to one another based on the model of the Berlin Ringbahn .

A large part of the station was destroyed in the Second World War, which also destroyed the two magnificent domes. In December 2012, an extensive restoration of the state of 1914 was completed, with which not only the domes were restored, but also the interior facades under the domes. In the 1960s, the station was expanded to the east for the new Tōkaidō Shinkansen line. In order to make room for the northern Shinkansen lines, the platform of the Chuō line was placed on stilts in the 1990s. In 2012 the station was subsequently made earthquake-proof in order to withstand an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale

←
 Lines
→
Beginning Remote Tōkaidō Shinkansen
JR Central 		Shinagawa
Beginning Shinkansen line Akita-Shinkansen
Jōetsu-Shinkansen
Hokuriku-Shinkansen
Tōhoku-Shinkansen
Yamagata-Shinkansen
JR East Shinkansen 		Ueno
Beginning Tōkaidō Line Main Tōkaidō Line,
JR East 		Shimbashi
Kanda Keihin-Tōhoku Line Keihin Tōhoku Line,
JR East 		Yūrakuchō
Kanda Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East 		Yūrakuchō
Shin-Nihombashi Sōbu-Yokosuka Line Sōbu Main Line
Yokosuka Line
JR East at the underground station 		Shimbashi
Beginning Chūō line Chūō Main Line
JR East 		Shinjuku
Beginning Chūō rapid transit line JR East Chūō rapid transit line
 Kanda
Beginning Keiyō line JR East Keiyō Line
 Hatchobori
Ōtemachi Marunouchi line Marunouchi Line
Tōkyō Metro 		Ginza

Web links

Commons : Tokyo Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JR East: Construction of Tokyo Station. Retrieved April 23, 2020 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Homepage of JR
  3. ↑ Masami Ito: Tokyo Station at 100: all change. In: The Japan Times Online. December 13, 2014, accessed November 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Article on derstandard.at