Yoyogi Railway Station

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Yoyogi Railway Station
Train of the Chūō-Sōbu line exiting the station
Train of the Chūō-Sōbu line exiting the station
Data
Platform tracks
opening
  • September 23, 1906 (JR East)
  • April 20, 2000 (Toei)
location
City / municipality Shibuya
prefecture Tokyo
Country Japan
Coordinates 35 ° 40 '59 "  N , 139 ° 42' 7"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 40 '59 "  N , 139 ° 42' 7"  E
Railway lines

JR East

Toei

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The Yoyogi Station ( Jap. 代々木駅 , Yoyogi-eki ) is located in Shibuya in Tokyo , Japan . It is several hundred meters south of Shinjuku Station . The station is served by two lines of the JR East and one line of the Toei .

history

The Yoyogi station was opened on September 23, 1906, on October 12, 1909 a train of the Chūō-Sōbu line stopped for the first time at the station. A few months later, on December 16, 1909, the first train of the Yamanote Line also stopped here. On April 20, 2000, the Toei station opened and a Ōedo line train stopped here for the first time.

A fire in the JR station building on May 20, 2002 resulted in operations on the Yamanote Line being completely halted for some time for safety reasons.

Type of construction and tracks

The stations of the JR East and the Toei are built in the most common design of a through station. The JR East station has 4 tracks with two external side platforms and a central central platform. Tracks 1 and 2 are served by the Yamanote line, tracks 3 and 4 by the Chūō-Sōbu line. The Toei station has only two tracks, which are served by a single central platform.

However, there is no direct transfer between the JR East and Toei stations in the same building. To change trains, you have to leave the JR East building through the west or north exit to reach the adjacent Toei train station.

JR East platforms

1 ▉  Yamanote Line Shinjuku • Ikebukuro • Ueno
2 ▉  Yamanote Line Harajuku • Shibuya • Shinagawa
3 ▉  Chūō-Sōbu line Shinjuku • Nakano • Mitaka • Takao
4th ▉  Chūō-Sōbu line Ochanomizu • Kinshichō • Tsudanuma • Chiba

Toei platforms

1 Line color Ōedo line Roppongi • Daimon
2 Line color Ōedo line Tochōmae • Hikarigaoka

Lines

Yoyogi station is served by the two JR East lines Chūō-Sōbu and Yamanote. In addition to the two JR East lines, the station is also served by the Toei Ōedo line. The colors used in the table below are the color codes of the lines assigned by the respective companies.

←
 Lines
→
Sendagaya Chūō-Sōbu Line JR East Chūō-Sōbu Line
 Shinjuku
Harajuku Yamanote line Yamanote Line
JR East 		Shinjuku
Kokuritsu Kyōgijyō Ōedo line Toei line
Toedo 		Shinjuku

Surroundings

Near the train station are the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Japan , the Yoyogi Animation College, the Japanese headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline , the headquarters of the Association of Shinto Shrines ( 神社 本 庁 , Jinja Honchō ) and the NTT DoCoMo Yoyogi building.

use

In 2014, the station was used by an average of 69,246 passengers per day, making it 63rd out of over 900 on the list of the most frequently used stations of the JR East in 2014. In the 2007 financial year, an average of 49,857 getting on and 46,505 getting off passengers used the Ōedo line at Yoyogi station per day.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Passengers boarding in Yoyogi. Calculation from sold single, collective and monthly tickets.
  2. ↑ JR East passenger numbers , rank 63
  3. ↑ Toei Metro gastedo Line Ride