Friday 11 October 2013

Tokyo Railway Station, Japan.




Tokyo Station is a railway station in the Marunouchi business district of Chivoda, Tokyo, Japan.  It is the main intercity rail terminal in Tokyo, the busiest station in Japan in terms of number of trains per day (over 3,000), and the fifth-busiest in Eastern Japan in terms of passenger throughput. It is the starting point and terminus for most of Japan's Shinkansen high speed rail lines, and is served by many local and regional commuter lines of Japan Railways as well as the Tokyo Metro


The main station façade on the western side of the station is brick-built, surviving from the time when the station opened in 1914. The main station consists of 10 island platforms serving 20 tracks, raised above street level running in a north-south direction. The main concourse runs east-west below the platforms.

The Shinkansen lines are on the east side of the station. Underground are the two Sōbu/Yokosuka line platforms serving four tracks (five stories below ground level) to the west of the station; the two Keiyō Line platforms serving four tracks are four stories below ground some hundreds of meters to the south of the main station with moving walkways to serve connecting passengers.


The whole complex is linked by an extensive system of underground passageways which merge with surrounding commercial buildings and shopping centres.

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