is a

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in the

Yotsuya is a neighborhood in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It is a former ward (四谷区 ''Yotsuya-ku'') in the now-defunct Tokyo City. In 1947, when the 35 wards of Tokyo were reorganized into 23, it was merged with Ushigome ward of Tokyo City and Yodobas ...

district of

Shinjuku, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative centre, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world ( Shinjuku Station) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration ...

, Japan, operated jointly by

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(JR East) and

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. Several parts of the station are also located in the Rokubancho and Kojimachi neighborhoods of

Chiyoda ward is a special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It is known as Chiyoda City in English.Profile ...

Lines

Yotsuya Station is served by the JR East

Chūō Main Line The , commonly called the Chūō Line, is one of the major trunk railway lines in Japan. It connects Tokyo and Nagoya, although it is the slowest direct railway connection between the two cities; the coastal Tōkaidō Main Line is slightly faste ...

with both

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and Chūō-Sōbu Line local services stopping here. It is also served by the

Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line The is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyo Metro. The line runs in a U-shape between Ogikubo Station in Suginami and Ikebukuro Station in Toshima, with a branch line between Nakano-Sakaue Station and Hōnanchō Station. The offi ...

(station number M-12) and

Tokyo Metro Namboku Line The is a subway line owned and operated by Tokyo Metro in Tokyo, Japan. The line runs between Meguro in Shinagawa and Akabane-Iwabuchi in Kita. The Namboku Line was referred to as Line 7 during the planning stages, thus the seldom-used officia ...

(station number N-08) subway lines. The station is from the Marunouchi Line terminus at Ikebukuro, and from the Namboku Line terminus at Meguro. All four lines at Yotsuya run north to south; however, the Chūō/Chūō-Sōbu Line and Marunouchi Line are mainly east–west lines, and somewhat counter-intuitively, while northbound Chūō Line trains are bound for Tokyo and southbound trains are bound for Shinjuku, northbound Marunouchi Line trains are bound for Shinjuku and southbound trains are bound for Tokyo.

Station layout

File:Yotsuya-Sta-Yotsuta.JPG, Yotsuya entrance, August 2008 File:Yotsuya-Sta-Kojimachi.JPG, Kojimachi entrance, August 2008

JR East

The JR East part of the station consists of two

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s serving four tracks. The station has a "

Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...

" staffed ticket counter and "View Plaza" travel agency. File:JRE_Yotsuya-STA_Akasaka-Gate.jpg, Ticket gates at Akasaka exit File:JR Chuo-Main-Line Yotsuya Station Platform 1・2.jpg, Platforms 1 and 2 File:JR Chuo-Main-Line Yotsuya Station Platform 3・4.jpg, Platforms 3 and 4

Tokyo Metro

The Marunouchi Line station is elevated with two

side platforms A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

serving two tracks. The Namboku Line station is underground with one island platform serving two tracks. File:Tokyo-Metro_Yotsuya-STA_JR-Yotsuya-STA-District-Gate.jpg, Ticket gates File:Tokyo-Metro_Yotsuya-STA_Platform1.jpg, Platform 1 File:Tokyo-Metro_Yotsuya-STA_Platform2.jpg, Platform 2 File:Tokyo_Metro_Yotsuya_Station_Namboku_Line_Platform.jpg, Platforms 3 and 4

History

Yotsuya Station opened on 9 September 1894 as a station on the Kobu Railway, the forerunner of the Chūō Line which was nationalized in 1906. Although the line was originally single-track, the section passing through Yotsuya was double-tracked in 1895 and quadruple-tracked in 1929. The Marunouchi Line station opened on 15 March 1959, and the Namboku Line station opened on 26 March 1996. Yotsuya was the southern terminus of the Namboku Line until the opening of Tameike-Sannō Station in 1997. The station facilities of the Marunouchi and Namboku Lines were inherited by

after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 92,431 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 45th-busiest station operated by JR East. In fiscal 2013, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 110,217 passengers per day (exiting and entering passengers), making it the 27th-busiest station operated by Tokyo Metro. The average daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below. * Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

Surrounding area

The station is situated in the

neighborhood on the boundary between Shinjuku and Chiyoda wards. *

Akasaka Palace , or the , is one of the two state guest houses of the Government of Japan. The other state guesthouse is the Kyoto State Guest House. The palace was originally built as the in 1909. Today the palace is designated by the Government of Japan a ...

* Kioi Hall * St. Ignatius Church

Universities and schools

Sophia University Sophia University (Japanese: 上智大学, ''Jōchi Daigaku''; Latin: ''Universitas Sedis Sapientiae'') is a private research university in Japan. Sophia is one of the three ''Sōkeijōchi'' (早慶上智) private universities, a group of the to ...

Tokyo Chinese School Tokyo Chinese School (TCS) is a Chinese International school in (五番町), Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) accredits the school.Gottlieb, Nanette. "Japan: Language Planning and ...

* Yotsuya Elementary School * Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin * Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin - Japanese Language Institute

Hotels

Hotel New Otani is a chain of hotels headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.Hotel Overview
" ''New Otani'' ...

* Mitsui Garden Hotel Yotsuya

References

External links

Yotsuya Station information
(JR East)

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