Yoyogi Station

Yoyogi Station
代々木駅
Yoyogi station entrance
Location
Prefecture Tokyo
(See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward Shibuya
Neighborhood etc. 1 Yoyogi
(in Japanese) 東京都渋谷区代々木1丁目
History
Year opened 1906
Rail services
Station number(s) E-26 (Toei)
Operator(s) JR East, Toei
Line(s) Chūō-Sōbu Line, Yamanote Line Toei Ōedo Line

Yoyogi Station (代々木駅 Yoyogi-eki?) is a railway station located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, several hundred meters south of Shinjuku Station. It is station E-26 under Toei's numbering system.

Contents

Layout

JR East

The JR East station consists of two side platforms on either side of an island platform, serving four tracks in total.

  1. Yamanote Line (for Shinjuku, Ikebukuro)
  2. Yamanote Line (for Shibuya, Shinagawa)
  3. Chūō-Sōbu Line (for Nakano, Mitaka)
  4. Chūō-Sōbu Line (for Ochanomizu, Chiba)

There are three exits: East exit, West exit, and North exit. The latter two provide easy access to the Ōedo line.

Toei Ōedo Line

The Toei Ōedo Line station has one island platform serving two tracks.

History

The station was first opened on 23 October 1906 by a private company as a station on the Chūō Main Line, but was nationalized only a week later when the Japanese National Railways took over the company and all of its assessments. The Toei Ōedo Line station opened on 20 April 2000.[1]

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Harajuku   Yamanote Line   Shinjuku
Sendagaya   Chūō-Sōbu Line   Shinjuku
Kokuritsu-Kyōgijō   Toei Ōedo Line   Shinjuku

References

  1. ^ Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 (Databook: Japan's Private Railways). Japan: Neko Publishing. ISBN 4-87366-874-3. 

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yoyogi_Station Yoyogi Station] at Wikimedia Commons
Stations of the Yamanote Line
Stations of the Chūō-Sōbu Line (Local Service)
Stations of the Toei Ōedo Line