Uguisudani Station

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The Uguisudani Station (Japanese莺 谷 駅, -eki Uguisudani, literally Nachtigallental station ) is located in Taitō located in Tokyo, Japan. With only about 24,000 passengers each day on average (as of 2007), he is one of the smallest stations on the Yamanote Line. The name of the station derives from a valley in the vicinity from where once found many Japanese bush warbler (鴬, Uguisu ).

History

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

Design and tracks

The station was built in the commonly encountered construction of a railway station as a transit station. He has four platform tracks, which hit two central platforms. The lines go the platforms on according to their direction of travel, and not according to their assignment to a line. The Keihin - Tohoku line then travels to the outer two, the Yamanote Line, the two inner platforms.

Lines

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

Environment

Radius around the station there is a variety of love hotels.

Just south of the station, a more than four -acre cemetery closes on which there is also a mausoleum of the Tokugawa family.

In addition, cultural institutions are located in the vicinity like a calligraphy museum (书 道 博物馆), the Tokyo National Museum and the National Research Institute of Cultural Properties Tokyo.

Use

In 2007, the station from an average of 23 932 passengers was used on the day, so the rank of 161 took over 900 on the ranking of the busiest train stations of JR East in 2007. This low average utilization of the railway station is one of the smallest on the entire Yamanote Line.

Footnotes and References

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