Tokyo Station

Trains on the following lines are available at Tokyo Station:

• JR East
  • Tōhoku Shinkansen
  • Yamagata Shinkansen
  • Akita Shinkansen
  • Jōetsu Shinkansen
  • Hokuriku Shinkansen
  • Hokkaido Shinkansen
  • JT Tōkaidō Main Line
  • JU Ueno–Tokyo Line
  • JK Keihin–Tōhoku Line
  • JY Yamanote Line
  • Chūō Main Line (including JC Chūō Line (Rapid))
  • Sōbu Main Line (including JO Sōbu Line (Rapid), Limited Express Narita Express, Ayame, Shiosai)
  • JO Yokosuka Line (including Limited Express Narita Express)
  • JE Keiyō Line
• JR Central
  • Tōkaidō Shinkansen (through services to/from San'yō Shinkansen operated by JR West)
• Tokyo Metro
  • M Marunouchi Line

The station is linked by underground passageways to the Ōtemachi underground (subway) station complex served by the Tōzai, Chiyoda, Hanzōmon, and Mita subway lines.

It is also possible to walk to the Nijūbashimae, Hibiya, Yūrakuchō, Ginza, and Higashi-ginza Stations completely underground (the last a distance of over 2 km), but these stations can usually be reached more quickly by train.

Tokyo Station is also a major intercity bus terminal, with regular midday service to several cities in the Kantō region and overnight service to the Kansai and Tōhoku regions.

The main station façade on the western side of the station is brick-built, surviving from the time when the station opened in 1914. The main station consists of 10 island platforms serving 20 tracks, raised above street level running in a north–south direction. The main concourse runs east–west below the platforms.

The Shinkansen lines are on the east (or Yaesu) side of the station, along with a multi-storey Daimaru department store.

Underground are the two Sōbu/Yokosuka line platforms serving four tracks (five stories below ground level) to the west of the station; the two Keiyō Line platforms serving four tracks are four stories below ground some hundreds of meters to the south of the main station with moving walkways to serve connecting passengers.

The whole complex is linked by an extensive system of underground passageways that merge with surrounding commercial buildings and shopping centres.

• Tokyo Station
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  Shinkansen at Tokyo Station
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  Tokyo Station Marunouchi Station Square (2019)
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  Tokyo Station Marunouchi Station Square
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  Tokyo Station Marunouchi and JP Tower (2018)
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  Marunouchi Central Exit (2012)
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  Tokyo Station Yaesu exit
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  Tokyo Station Nihombashi exit (Marunouchi Central Building)

JR

TYOJT01JU01JK26JY01JC01JO19JE01 Tokyo Station 東京駅
Tokyo Station from above (2004)
Operated by	JR East JR Central
Line(s)	Tokaido Shinkansen Tōhoku Shinkansen Yamagata Shinkansen Akita Shinkansen Jōetsu Shinkansen Hokuriku Shinkansen JT Tōkaidō Line JU Ueno–Tokyo Line JK Keihin–Tōhoku Line JY Yamanote Line JC Chūō Line JO Sōbu Line (Rapid) JO Yokosuka Line JE Keiyō Line
Connections	Bus terminal
Other information
Station code	JT01 (Tōkaidō Line) JC01 (Chūō Line) JO19 (Yokusuka Line/Sōbu Line (Rapid)) JE01 (Keiyo Line) JY01 (Yamanote Line) JU01 (Utsunomiya Line and Takasaki Line) JK26 (Keihin–Tōhoku Line)
History
Opened	20 December 1914 (1914-12-20)
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Terminus Tōhoku Shinkansen Hayabusa Ueno (limited service) toward Shin-Aomori Tōhoku Shinkansen Yamabiko Ueno (limited service) toward Morioka Tōhoku Shinkansen Nasuno Ueno toward Kōriyama Yamagata Shinkansen Tsubasa Ueno toward Shinjō Akita Shinkansen Komachi Ueno toward Akita Jōetsu Shinkansen Toki Ueno toward Niigata Jōetsu Shinkansen Tanigawa Ueno toward Gala-Yuzawa Hokuriku Shinkansen Kagayaki Hakutaka Ueno toward Kanazawa Hokuriku Shinkansen Asama Ueno toward Nagano Preceding station JR Central Following station Shinagawa toward Shin-Ōsaka Tōkaidō Shinkansen Nozomi Hikari Kodama Terminus
Other services JY JK JC JT JU JJ JO JE Preceding station JR East Following station Yūrakuchō JY30 next clockwise Yamanote Line Kanda KNDJY02 next counter-clockwise Hamamatsuchō HMCJK23 toward Yokohama Keihin–Tōhoku Line   Rapid Kanda KNDJK27 toward Ōmiya Yūrakuchō JK25 toward Yokohama Keihin–Tōhoku Line   Local Terminus Azusa Shinjuku SJKJC05 toward Minami-Otari Kaiji (limited service) Shinjuku SJKJC05 toward Ryuo Hachioji Shinjuku SJKJC05 toward Hachiōji Ōme Shinjuku SJKJC05 toward Ōme Chūō Line   Commuter Special Rapid Kanda One-way operation Chūō Line   Chūō Special Rapid Kanda KNDJC02 toward Ōtsuki Chūō Line   Ōme Special Rapid Kanda KNDJC02 toward Tachikawa Chūō Line   Commuter Rapid   Rapid Kanda KNDJC02 toward Ōtsuki Yokohama YHMJT05 toward Atami Sunrise Izumo and Sunrise Seto Terminus Shinagawa SGWJT03 toward Itō Saphir Odoriko Shinagawa SGWJT03 toward Itō or Atami Odoriko Shimbashi SMBJT02 (Limited service) toward Odawara Shōnan Liner Shimbashi SMBJT02 toward Odawara Tōkaidō Line   Commuter Rapid Shimbashi SMBJT02 toward Atami Tōkaidō Line Rapid Acty   Local & Rapid Rabbit/Urban Ueno UENJU02 (through to Utsunomiya Line and Takasaki Line) Terminus Shinagawa SGWJT03 Terminus Hitachi Ueno UENJJ01 toward Sendai Tokiwa Ueno UENJJ01 toward Takahagi Shimbashi SMBJT02 toward Shinagawa Jōban Line   Special Rapid Ueno UENJJ01 toward Tsuchiura Jōban Line Local-Futsuu Ueno UENJJ01 toward Sendai Jōban Line Rapid Ueno UENJJ01 toward Toride Shinagawa SGWJO17 (limited service) toward Ōfuna, Takao or Ōmiya Narita Express Chiba JO28 (rush periods) toward Narita Airport Terminal 1 Terminus Shiosai Kinshichō JO22 toward Chōshi Shimbashi SMBJO18 toward Kurihama Yokosuka Line through to Sōbu Line through to Yokosuka Line Sōbu Line   Commuter Rapid   Rapid Shin-Nihombashi JO20 toward Chiba Terminus Sazanami Soga toward Kimitsu Wakashio Kaihimmakuhari JE13 (limited service) toward Awa-Kamogawa Keiyō Line   Commuter Rapid   Rapid   Local Hatchōbori JE02 toward Soga Keiyō Line   Musashino–Tokyo Hatchōbori JE02 toward Fuchūhommachi

Tokyo Metro

M17 Tokyo Station 東京駅
Tokyo subway station
Marunouchi Line station platform
Operated by	Tokyo Metro
Line(s)	M Marunouchi Line
Connections	Bus terminal
Other information
Station code	M-17
History
Opened	20 March 1956 (1956-03-20)
Services
Preceding station Tokyo Metro Following station Ginza M16 toward Ogikubo or Hōnanchō Marunouchi Line Ōtemachi M18 toward Ikebukuro

1	M Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line	for Ginza, Shinjuku and Ogikubo
2	M Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line	for Otemachi and Ikebukuro

Original brick Tokyo Station (Marunouchi Building) in 1914

Japanese crowds welcoming Hitler Youth in front of Tokyo Station in 1938

View of Tokyo Station in 2000, before renovation work

Renovation of Marunouchi side of station, November 2009

In 1889, a Tokyo municipal committee drew up plans for an elevated railway line connecting the Tōkaidō Main Line terminal at Shinbashi to the Nippon Railway (now Tōhoku Main Line) terminal at Ueno. The Imperial Diet resolved in 1896 to construct a new station on this line called Central Station (中央停車場, Chūō Teishajō), located directly in front of the gardens of the Imperial Palace.[1]

Construction was delayed by the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War, but finally commenced in 1908. The three-story station building was designed by architect Tatsuno Kingo (who also designed Manseibashi Station and the nearby Bank of Japan building) as a restrained celebration of Japan's costly victory in the Russo-Japanese War. The building is often rumored to be fashioned after Amsterdam Centraal station in the Netherlands, although there is little evidence to support the opinion. Terunobu Fujimori, a scholar of Western architecture, denies the rumor, having studied Tatsuno's styles as well as the building itself.[3]

Tokyo Station opened on December 20, 1914 with four platforms;[1] two serving electric trains (current Yamanote/Keihin–Tōhoku Line platforms) and two serving non-electric trains (current Tōkaidō Line platforms). The Chūō Main Line extension to the station was completed in 1919 and originally stopped at the platform now used by northbound Yamanote/Keihin–Tōhoku trains. During this early era, the station only had gates on the Marunouchi side, with the north side serving as an exit and the south side serving as an entrance.[4] The Yaesu side of the station opened in 1929.

Much of the station was destroyed in a B-29 firebombing raid on May 25, 1945. The bombing shattered the impressive rooftop domes and the entire third floor of the building. The station was quickly rebuilt within a year, but the restored building had only two stories instead of three, and simple angular roofs were built in place of the original domes.[1] These postwar alterations were blamed for creating the mistaken impression that the building was based on the Centraal station in Amsterdam. Plans in the 1980s to demolish the building and replace it with a larger structure were derailed by a preservation movement.[5]

Yaesu side, with the GranTokyo South Tower (completed in 2007)

The Yaesu side was also rebuilt after the war, but the new structure was damaged by fire in 1949, and this side of the building was then significantly upgraded with a contemporary exterior and a large Daimaru department store. The new Yaesu side facilities opened in 1953, including two new platforms for Tōkaidō Main Line services (now used by Shinkansen trains). Two more platforms opened in 1964 to accommodate the first Shinkansen services. The Yaesu side was partially rebuilt again in 1991 to accommodate the Shinkansen extension from Ueno.

A plan was finalized in 1971 to build a Narita Shinkansen high-speed line connecting Tokyo Station to Narita International Airport. The line was envisioned as extending underground from Tokyo to Shinjuku Station, and the plan was to build the platforms underneath Kajibashi-dori (to the south of Tokyo Station) to avoid the need to run the line under the Imperial Palace. Construction of the Narita Shinkansen was halted in 1983 due to difficulties acquiring the necessary land to build the line, but the area set aside for its platforms was eventually used for the Keiyō Line and Musashino Line terminals, which opened in 1990.[6]

From July 1987, the station hosted a series of regular free public concerts referred to as "Tokyo Eki Kon" (Tokyo Station Concerts). These were first held as a celebration of the launch of Japan Railways Group as the privatized successor to the state-owned Japanese National Railways. Altogether 246 concerts were performed, but the event was discontinued when its popularity waned and the last concert took place in November 2000. The event returned in 2004 as the "Aka Renga (Red Brick) Concerts" but it was again suspended, after 19 concerts, when redevelopment of the station started in earnest. In 2012, as the reconstruction was nearing completion, there were calls for the concerts to resume.[7]

The Tokyo Station complex has undergone extensive development, including major improvements to the Marunouchi (west) and Yaesu (east) sides of the station. The Marunouchi side underwent an extensive five-year renovation, completed in October 2012, in which the historic 98-year-old façade on this side of the station was restored to its pre-war condition. The restoration work included recreating the two domes according to their original design.[8] The surrounding area was converted into a broad plaza (Marunouchi Central Plaza) extending into a walkway toward the Imperial Palace, with space for bus and taxi ranks. In contrast, the Yaesu side of the station is very urban in appearance. The North and South GranTokyo towers are connected to the terminal by the GranRoof, a new commercial facility with a large canopy representing a "sail of light" which covers the outdoor areas. The high-rise towers include multi-story shopping areas and the offices of a number of leading companies and universities.[1] This part of the project was completed in 2013.

Tokyo Station has been the site of two assassination attempts on Japanese prime ministers. On November 4, 1921, Hara Takashi was stabbed to death by a right-wing railroad switchman in front of the south wing as he arrived to board a train for Kyoto. On November 14, 1930, Osachi Hamaguchi was shot by a member of the Aikokusha ultra-nationalist secret society. He survived the attack but died of his wounds in August the following year.[5]

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  The spot where Hamaguchi was shot
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  Plaque commemorating the Hamaguchi shooting

There was a proposal to build a spur to Tokyo Station from the nearby Toei Asakusa Line, which would provide another connection to the subway network, and also possibly provide faster connections from the station to Tokyo's airports, Haneda and Narita.[9] The plan has yet to be formally adopted. Authorities are re-considering a similar plan as part of the infrastructure improvements for the 2020 Summer Olympics; the proposed line would cut travel time to Haneda from 30 minutes to 18 minutes, and to Narita from 55 minutes to 36 minutes, at a total cost of around 400 billion yen.[10]

There are also plans to extend the Tsukuba Express from Akihabara to Tokyo. In September 2013, a number of municipalities along the Tsukuba Express line in Ibaraki Prefecture submitted a proposal to complete the extension at the same time as the new airport-to-airport line.[11]

In fiscal 2018, the JR East station was used by an average of 467,165 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the third busiest station on the JR East network.[12] Over the same fiscal year, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 218,275 passengers daily (both exiting and entering passengers), making it the ninth-busiest Tokyo Metro station.[13] The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for the JR East (formerly JNR) station in previous years are as shown below.

• Yaesu South Exit Highway Bus Terminal

Tokyo Station has "sister station" agreements with Amsterdam Centraal station in the Netherlands, Grand Central Terminal in New York, USA, Beijing railway station in China, Hsinchu Station in Taiwan,[30] and Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof in Germany.[31]

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• Ramen Street – an area in Tokyo Station's underground mall specializing in ramen dishes

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• JR East map of Tokyo Station
• Tokyo Station (JR East) (in Japanese)
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• Tokyo Station (Tokyo Metro) (in Japanese)