Shin-Ōkubo Station

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Coordinates: 35.6957° N 139.7002° E

Shin-Ōkubo Station
新大久保駅
Shin-Ōkubo from the outside
Location
Prefecture Tokyo
(See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward Shinjuku
History
Year opened 1914
Rail services
Operator(s) East Japan Railway Company
Line(s) Yamanote Line

Shin-Ōkubo Station (新大久保駅 Shin-Ōkubo-eki?) is a railway station located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Opened on November 15, 1914, it is close to the large local Korea Town. Shin-Ōkubo station has only one exit.

Less than a kilometer north of the sprawling Shinjuku station, Shin-Ōkubo Station is located approximately 5 minutes walk from Shinjuku's famous Kabukichō district. It is also about a 3-minute walk from Ōkubo station on the Chūō-Sōbu Line.

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[edit] Incidents

On 26 January 2001, a 26-year-old Korean student died at the station when he was hit by a Yamanote Line train while trying to save a drunken Japanese man who had fallen off the platform onto the tracks.[1]

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[edit] Adjacent stations

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Shinjuku   Yamanote Line   Takadanobaba

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