is a railway station in

Shibuya, Tokyo Shibuya ( 渋谷区 ''Shibuya-ku'') is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. As a major commercial and finance center, it houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shinjuku Station (southern half) and Shibuya Station. As of April ...

, Japan, operated by the

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters ar ...

(JR East) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei). It is station E-26 under Toei's numbering system.

Station layout

JR East

The JR East station consists of two ground-level

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

s on either side of an

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular ...

, serving four tracks in total. File:JR Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line Yoyogi Station North Gates.jpg, North gates File:JR_Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line_Yoyogi_Station_Platform_1_(20210410).jpg, Platform 1 File:JR_Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line_Yoyogi_Station_Platform_2・3_(20210410).jpg, Platforms 2 and 3 File:JR_Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line_Yoyogi_Station_Platform_4_(20210410).jpg, Platform 4 File:JR Shinjuku station track map 2010.svg, Track layout of Yoyogi and Shinjuku stations as of 2010 Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in September 2015, and brought into use from October. There are three exits: East exit, West exit, and North exit. The latter two provide easy access to the Oedo line.

Toei

The Toei Oedo Line station has one underground island platform serving two tracks. File:Toei-subway-E26-Yoyogi-station-platform-20191201-132828.jpg, Toei platforms, December 2019 File:Oedo line Yoyogi Station ticket gates Oct 23 2020 06PM.jpeg, Ticket gates, October 2020

History

The station 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 The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR) took over the company and all of its assessments. The underground Toei Ōedo Line station opened on 20 April 2000. Station numbering was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Yoyogi being assigned station numbers JB11 for the Chūō-Sobu line, and JY18 for the Yamanote line.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 70,016 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 63rd-busiest station operated by JR East. In fiscal 2013, the Toei station was used by an average of 17,382 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for JR East in previous years are as shown below.

References

External links

JR East station information

{{Toei Oedo Line Yamanote Line Chūō-Sōbu Line Toei Ōedo Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Stations of Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation Railway stations in Tokyo Buildings and structures in Shibuya Railway stations in Japan opened in 1906