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Platform and track of the Asakusa Line
Higashi-ginza Station (東銀座駅, Higashi-ginza-eki?) is a subway station on the Toei Asakusa Line, operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, and on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line. The Hibiya Line station is subtitled Kabukiza-mae. The station is located in Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. Its numbers are A-11 and H-09.
Higashi-ginza's Asakusa Line station has two platforms serving two tracks. Track 1 is for passengers bound for Sengakuji and Nishi-Magome Stations. Track 2 is for those traveling in the opposite direction toward Nihombashi and Oshiage Stations. On the Hibiya line, an island station serves the two tracks. Track 3 is for Ginza and Naka-Meguro Stations, and trains depart Track 4 for Ueno and Kita-Senju Stations.
The station serves the eastern part of the Ginza. In the area are the Kabuki-za, the headquarters of Nissan Motors, the Shinbashi Enbujō (a theater owned by Shochiku), the Tōgeki (a Shochiku cinema), the Electric Power Development Company, and the Courtyard by Marriott Tokyo Ginza Hotel.
Higashi-ginza opened on February 28, 1963 as a station on Toei Line 1. In 1978, the line took its present name.
