Talk:Tokyo Station

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The use of kanji seems a little excessive, to the point of making the article hard to read; and the train lines should be linked.--Jpatokal Nov 13 2003

These things take time you know ;-). The edit button's on the right BTW ;-)) Ianb Nov 13 2003

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[edit] Unlinked to any private railways?

"Unusually for a major Japanese station it is not linked to any private (i.e. non-JR) railway lines"

I have removed that statement because Tokyo Metro (a non-JR) railway company has been serving Tokyo Station with subway service since 1956 - Limitedexpresstrain 19:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Revenue : per day or per year?

"Tokyo Station does hold the distinction of being the highest revenue-earning station in Japan, with ¥247m ($2.13m US) in ticket sales in 2005." This is ambiguous: if the units are correct (million of JPY), it must be the revenue per day. Or if it's for the full year 2005, if the figure of 247 is correct, then the unit has to be billion of JPY. In any event, clarification needed.

[edit] How old is image of Tokyo station?

  • I'd like to know when this image was taken. The cars seem like 80s model cars. Has the building changed in appearance since this photo was taken?
Judging from the surrounding buildings, I would say they are both recent. There is a new tower being built opposite side on the north, and it appears the construction crane visible in Marunouchi side photo is at that location so that would date it to around 2005 or early 2006. jcp 12:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
The photo of the Yaesu side with the taxis is from January or February 2005, I believe. If that's the photo you're interested in, I can look it up for you. Fg2 12:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ownership

Which part of Japan Railways is the station owned - JR East or JR Tokai? Bigtop 08:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

JR East jcp 12:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please format names uniformly

Whichever way you want it, please be consistent: Tatsuno Kingo (Family-Given) Terunobu Fujimori (Given-Family) Hara Takashi (Family-Given)

The name order is set by WP:MOS-JA. If Tatsuno and Hara were born before the Meiji era, then, Family-Given is correct; while Fujimori was born after that, so, Given-Family is correct. Sometimes, consistency within an article is a real problem, and, it might be worth a discussion at the manual of style to see if we should bend the rules for links to people in articles like this. I don't have any idea how that discussion would turn out. Neier 02:17, 6 July 2007 (UTC)