Ikebukuro Station

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Ikebukuro Station
池袋駅
Ikebukuro Station building (east side) at night, looking South on Meiji-Dori.
Location
Prefecture Tokyo
(See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward Toshima
Neighborhood etc. 1-28-1,2 Minami-Ikebukuro
(in Japanese) 東京都豊島区南池袋一丁目28-1～2
History
Opened 1903
Rail services
Operator(s) East Japan Railway Company, Seibu Railway, Tōbu Railway, Tokyo Metro
Line(s) Yamanote Line
Saikyō Line
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Seibu Ikebukuro Line
Tōbu Tōjō Main Line
Marunouchi Line
Yūrakuchō Line
Yūrakuchō New Line
There is a major bus terminal at this station.

Ikebukuro Station (池袋駅 Ikebukuro-eki?) is a train station located in the Ikebukuro district of Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. With 2.7 million passengers on an average weekday in 2004, it is the second-busiest train station in the world (after Shinjuku Station), and the busiest station in the Tobu, Seibu and Tokyo Metro networks. It primarily serves commuters from Saitama and other residential areas northwest of the city center. It is the Tokyo terminal of the Seibu Ikebukuro Line and the Tōbu Tōjō Main Line.

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Tōbu Tōjō Main Line platforms 1 and 2 looking south
Tōbu Tōjō Main Line platforms 1 and 2 looking south
Seibu Line platforms
Seibu Line platforms

Ikebukuro Station has two entrances, East and West. The JR lines run north/south through the center. The Tobu platforms are to the northwest and the Seibu platforms are to the southeast. Both Tobu and Seibu operate department stores adjacent to their terminal stations. (Ironically, "Seibu" (西武) starts with the kanji for "west" (西), but its platforms are in the eastern part of the station, while "Tōbu" (東武) starts with the character for "east" (東), but its platforms are in the western part of the station.)

The Marunouchi Line and Yūrakuchō Line run east/west two stories underground, while the Yurakucho New Line is four stories underground to the west of the main station complex. The latter line will eventually be extended south toward Shinjuku and Shibuya along Meiji-dori, and by 2012 will offer through service to the Tokyu Toyoko Line.

The surrounding Ikebukuro district is a major commercial center. Sunshine City, Parco, Mitsukoshi, and Bic Camera are located to the east of the station, while the Metropolitan Plaza is located to the west.

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The station was opened on April 1, 1903 by the national railway. This is relatively late opening among major stations on the Yamanote Line. The station and the surrounding area saw rapid development after the opening of the Tōjō Railway Line (present-day Tobu Tōjō Main Line) in 1914 and the Musashino Railway Line (present-day Seibu Ikebukuro LIne) in 1915.

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  • (September 1988) JR全線全駅ステーション倶楽部編(上) (Complete JR Line/Station Compendium (Vol. 1)?) (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: 文春文庫 (Bunshun Bunko?), 37-38. ISBN 4-16-748701-2. 
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Stations of the Yamanote Line
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Stations of the Saikyō Line

(Towards Shin-Kiba >>) Ōsaki - Ebisu - Shibuya - Shinjuku - Ikebukuro - Itabashi - Jūjō - Akabane - Kita-Akabane - Ukima-Funado - Toda-Kōen - Toda - Kita-Toda - Musashi-Urawa - Naka-Urawa - Minami-Yono - Yonohommachi - Kita-Yono - Ōmiya (Through to Kawagoe Line >>)
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Stations of the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line

--- Takasaki Line - Tōkaidō Main Line ---
Maebashi - Shin-Maebashi - Ino - Takasaki-Ton-yamachi - Takasaki - Kuragano - Shinmachi - Jimbohara - Honjō - Okabe - Fukaya - Kagohara - Kumagaya - Gyōda - Fukiage - Kita-Kōnosu - Kōnosu - Kitamoto - Okegawa - Kita-Ageo - Ageo - Miyahara - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Yokohama - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Fujisawa - Tsujidō - Chigasaki - Hiratsuka - Ōiso - Ninomiya - Kōzu - Kamonomiya - Odawara

--- Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line ---
Utsunomiya - Suzumenomiya - Ishibashi - Jichi-idai - Koganei - Tochigi - Mamada - Nogi - Koga - Kurihashi - Higashi-Washinomiya - Kuki - Shin-Shiraoka - Shiraoka - Hasuda - Higashi-Ōmiya - Toro - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Nishi-Ōi - Shin-Kawasaki - Yokohama - Hodogaya - Higashi-Totsuka - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Kita-Kamakura - Kamakura - Zushi
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Tōbu Tōjō Line

Ikebukuro - Kita-Ikebukuro - Shimo-Itabashi - Ōyama - Naka-Itabashi - Tokiwadai - Kami-Itabashi - Tōbu-Nerima - Shimo-Akatsuka - Narimasu - (Towards Shin-Kiba<<) Wakōshi - Asaka - Asakadai - Shiki - Yanasegawa - Mizuhodai - Tsuruse - Fujimino - Kami-Fukuoka - Shingashi - Kawagoe - Kawagoeshi - Kasumigaseki - Tsurugashima - Wakaba - Sakado - Kita-Sakado - Takasaka - Higashi-Matsuyama - Shinrinkōen - Tsukinowa - Musashi-ranzan - Ogawamachi - Tōbu-Takezawa - Obusuma - Hachigata - Tamayodo - Yorii
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Stations of the Seibu Ikebukuros

Ikebukuro - Shiinamachi - Higashi-Nagasaki - Ekoda - Sakuradai - Nerima - Nakamurabashi - Fujimidai - Nerima-Takanodai - Shakujii-kōen - Ōizumi-gakuen - Hōya - Hibarigaoka - Higashi-Kurume - Kiyose - Akitsu - Tokorozawa - Nishi-Tokorozawa - Kotesashi - Sayamagaoka - Musashi-Fujisawa - Inariyama-kōen - Irumashi - Bushi - Motokaji - Hannō - Higashi-Hannō - Koma - Musashi-Yokote - Higashi-Agano - Agano - Nishi-Agano Station - Shōmaru - Ashigakubo - Yokoze - Seibu Chichibu

Seibu Yūrakuchō Line: Kotake-Mukaihara - Shin-Sakuradai - Nerima    Toshima Line: Nerima - Toshimaen
Sayama Line: Nishi-Tokorozawa - Shimo-Yamaguchi - Seibu Kyūjō-mae
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Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line
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Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line
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Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line (In service June 2008)
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Mass transit in the Tokyo area (Number of lines indicated in parentheses)
JR lines
■Yamanote • ■Chūō • ■Chūō-Sōbu • ■Jōban • ■Keihin-Tōhoku • ■Keiyō • ■Saikyō •■Shōnan-Shinjuku • ■Sōbu Rapid • ■Tōkaidō • ■Utsunomiya • ■Yokosuka
Tokyo Metro lines
○Chiyoda (C) • ○Fukutoshin (F) • ○Ginza (G) • ○Hibiya (H) • ○Marunouchi (M) • ○Namboku (N) • ○Tōzai (T) • ○Yūrakuchō (Y) • ○Hanzōmon (Z)
Toei lines
Subway: ○Asakusa (A) • ○Ōedo (E) • ○Mita (I) • ○Shinjuku (S) • Guideway: Nippori-Toneri • Streetcar: Arakawa
Major / semi-major lines
Keikyū (5) • Keiō (7) • Keisei (7) • Odakyū (5) • Seibu (13) • Shin-Keisei • Sōtetsu (2) • Tōbu (12) • Tōkyū (8)
Other lines
Suburban, JR
■Hachikō • ■Kawagoe • ■Mito • ■Musashino • ■Nambu • ■Narita • ■Negishi • ■Ōme • ■Ryōmō • ■Sagami • ■Sōbu Main • ■Sotobō • ■Takasaki • ■Tōgane • ■Tsurumi • ■Uchibō • ■Yokohama
Suburban, Non-JR
Terminals
Akihabara • Chiba • Ikebukuro • Kawasaki • Kita-Senju • Ōmiya • Ōtemachi • Shibuya • Shinagawa • Shinjuku • Tokyo • Ueno • Yokohama
Miscellaneous

Coordinates: 35°43′49″N, 139°42′41″E