Uguisudani Railway Station

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Uguisudani Railway Station
North entrance
North entrance of the train station
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation ウ ス (U-Su)
opening July 11, 1912
location
City / municipality Taitō
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 43 '14 "  N , 139 ° 46' 44"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 43 '14 "  N , 139 ° 46' 44"  E
Railway lines

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The uguisudani station ( jap. 鶯谷駅 , Uguisudani-eki , literally Nightingale Station ) is located in Taitō in Tokyo , Japan . With an average of around 24,000 passengers a day (as of 2007), it is one of the smallest train stations on the Yamanote line . The name of the station is derived from a nearby valley in which many Japanese bush singers ( 鴬 , Uguisu ) once found themselves.

history

The station opened on July 11, 1912 as the Yamanote Line station.

Type of construction and tracks

The train station is built in the most common type of train station construction as a through station. It has a total of four platform tracks, which approach two central platforms. The lines approach the platforms according to their direction of travel and not according to their line affiliation. The Keihin-Tōhoku line drives the two outer platforms, the Yamanote line the two inner platforms.

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

Lines

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

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

Surroundings

There are a number of Love Hotels in the vicinity of the train station .

Directly south of the train station is a more than four hectare cemetery on which there is also a mausoleum of the Tokugawa family.

There are also cultural institutions nearby, such as a Calligraphy Museum ( 書 道 博物館 ), the Tokyo National Museum and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Assets .

use

In 2014, the station was used by an average of 24,444 passengers per day, making it 161st of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014. With this low average usage, the station is one of the smallest on the entire Yamanote Line.

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/tokyo/uguisudani/
  2. ↑ Passengers boarding in Uguisudani. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  3. ↑ http://www.jreast.co.jp/zügeger/2014_01.html Source: JR East, rank 161

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