Akihabara Station
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is locatedin Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. It is at the centre of the famous Akihabara shopping district specialising in electronic goods. The station is located at .
Lines
JR: Underground (subway): Third-sector: The above-ground section of the station is cross-shaped, with the Sōbu Line's tracks running from east to west and the Yamanote and Keihin-Tōhoku Line's (and the Tōhoku Shinkansen's, which does not stop at Akihabara) from north to south.History
Akihabara Station was opened in November 1890 as a freight terminal linked to Ueno Station station via tracks following the course of the modern day Yamanote Line.It was opened to passenger traffic in 1925 following the construction of the section of track linking Ueno with Shinbashi via Tokyo station and the completion of the Yamanote Line. The upper level platforms were added in 1932 with the opening of an extension to the Sobu Line from its old terminal at Ryogoku to Ochanomizu, making Akihabara into an important transfer station for passengers from the east of Tokyo and Chiba.
The huge growth in commuter traffic following the Second World War caused considerable congestion and was only relieved with the construction of the Sobu line tunnel linking Kinshichō with Tokyo, bypassing Akihabara.
The Hibiya Line subway station was opened on May 31, 1962 with the line's extension from Naka-okachimachi to Ningyōchō.
In 2005 the underground terminus of the new Tsukuba Express Line opened at Akihabara.
Around the Station
The main attraction is the Akihabara electronics retail district to the north and west of the station. Also, the Tokyo Anime Center is within walking distance.Adjacent stations
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| Komagome | - | Tabata | - | Nishi-Nippori | - | Nippori | - | Uguisudani | - | Ueno | ||
| Sugamo | Stations of the JR Yamanote Line | Okachimachi | ||||||||||
| Ōtsuka | Akihabara | |||||||||||
| Ikebukuro | Kanda | |||||||||||
| Mejiro | Tokyo | |||||||||||
| Takadanobaba | Yūrakuchō | |||||||||||
| Shin-Ōkubo | Shinbashi | |||||||||||
| Shinjuku | Hamamatsuchō | |||||||||||
| Yoyogi | Tamachi | |||||||||||
| Harajuku | - | Shibuya | - | Ebisu | - | Meguro | - | Gotanda | - | Ōsaki | - | Shinagawa |
| Stations of the JR Keihin-Tōhoku Line |
|---|
| Omiya - Saitama-Shintohin - Yono - Kita-Urawa - Urawa - Minami-Urawa - Warabi - Nishi-Kawaguchi - Kawaguchi - Akabane - Higashi-Jūjō - Ōji - Kami-Nakazato - Tabata - Nishi Nippori - Nippori - Uguisudani - Ueno - Okachimachi - Akihabara - Kanda - Tokyo - Yurakucho - Shimbashi - Hamamatsucho - Tamachi - Shinagawa - Oimachi - Omori - Kamata - Kawasaki - Tsurumi - Shin-Koyasu - Higashi-Kanagawa - Yokohama - Sakuragicho - Kannai - Ishikawacho - Yamate - Negishi - Isogo - Shin-Sugita - Yōkōdai - Kōnandai - Hongōdai - Ōfuna |
See also
Chuo-Sobu Line Yamanote Line
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