Akihabara Station

• Tower Station (JR East)
• Through station (Tokyo Metro)
• Railhead ( MIR)

• 6 (JR East)
• 2 (Tokyo Metro)
• 2 (MIR )

• 217 237 (JR East)
• 128 224 (Tokyo Metro)
• 050 000 (MIR )

JR East:

• Chūō - sobu - line
• Keihin - Tohoku Line
• Yamanote Line

Tokyo Metro:

• Hibiya Line

MIR:

• Tsukuba Express

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The Akihabara Station (Japanese秋叶原 駅, Akihabara -eki ) is located in Chiyoda in Tokyo Prefecture and is an important railway junction. The station is located in the same electronics district Akihabara. On -web spiders of the Tokyo Metro station with the number H-15 is indicated for the Hibiya Line, Tsukuba Express for bearing the number of the station 01

History

On November 1, 1890, the station of the Nippon tetsudō is opened as a goods station, he had at this time a connection to the Ueno train station with tracks that are still used today by the Yamanote Line. On November 1, 1906, the station of the Japanese National Railways falls to and is nationalized. It is only with the opening of the first building construction route of Japan on November 1, 1925 as part of the Tōhoku Main Line between Tokyo and Ueno, on this day also the passenger service was added to the Yamanote Line. On April 1, 1928 extension to the freight station will be inaugurated which serves the construction route. As a result of an air raid during the Pacific War by the United States Army Air Forces of the station burns on March 10, 1942 down completely. Here also 14 passenger cars and 50 freight cars are burned. In 1962, the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line the station, about 200m east of the Japanese National Railways station was opened on 31 May. On February 1, Finally, in 1975 the freight is adjusted at the station. On 24 August 2004, the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company (MIR ) opens up the Tsukuba Express station. During the construction of the railway station for the Tsukuba Express also the overlying JR station was extensively renovated.

Design and tracks

Platforms JR East

The Akihabara station on the East Japan Railway Company is established in the quite rare construction of a railway station as train station tower. Here, the Chūō - sobu - line crosses in east-west direction on the Keihin - Tohoku Line and the Yamanote Line in the north-south direction. It has a total of six platform tracks which are divided into the lower level on two central platforms and in the upper level on two side platforms. The lines are located on the platforms according to the direction of travel on the lower level. On the lower level the tracks of the Shinkansen lines run directly east past the platform tracks.

Platforms Tokyo Metro

The subway station of Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line is located approximately 200m east of the tracks of the Keihin - Tōhoku and Yamanote line and parallel to it in a north-south direction under the National Road 4 Train station is completely underground in the commonly encountered design built as a through station. It consists of two underground levels in the first the station and track access, in the second the track systems. The tracks run along two side platforms.

Platforms Tsukuba Express

The of Tsukuba Express station was built by the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company in the subsoil under the JR Akihabara station. He station was built as a railway terminus and then that forms the beginning of the Tsukuba Express. The tracks at the station runs in an East -West direction and use a single central platform. The station is accessible from the JR station and also has access in the immediate vicinity of the entrances to the Hibiya line. In addition, the trains outside of the opening hours of the night are partially parked on the platforms. Currently (as of September 2008) is also discussed an extension of the line to Tokyo station, would be a through station in the realization of the station.

Lines

The station is served by three lines of JR East, a line of Tōkyō Metro and the Tsukuba Express the Metropolitan Intercity Railway ( MIR).

Environment

Main article: Akihabara

The area around the station is dominated by the same electronics district. Here you will find a variety of stores and small retailers who offer mainly a wide range of consumer electronics. But Akihabara is also a center of otaku culture here also since many traders from the area Anime, manga and merchandise shops have opened and can be found as Maid cafes here. The otaku culture is also reflected among other things in neologisms like Akiba - kei (about Akihabara style).

In addition, the station and its surroundings the staging area for the Densha Otoko series.

Use

In 2007, the station from an average of 217 237 passengers was used on the day, so the Rank 9 took over 900 on the ranking of the busiest train stations of JR East in 2007. The Hibiya Line of Tokyo Metro has been used at the station in 2007 from an average of 128 224 passengers a day. The station is now on rank 20 of the busiest train stations of Tokyo Metro in 2007. Tsukuba Express The was used in 2007 by 50,000 passengers per day on average at the station.

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