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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