is a subway station in the

Nihonbashi is a business district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan which grew up around the bridge of the same name which has linked two sides of the Nihonbashi River at this site since the 17th century. The first wooden bridge was completed in 1603. The curre ...

neighbourhood of

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, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator

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Lines

Kayabacho Station is served by the

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and the

Tokyo Metro Tozai Line The is a rapid transit line in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by Tokyo Metro. Its name translates to "''East-West Line"''. The line runs between Nakano in Nakano-ku, Tokyo and Nishi-Funabashi in Funabashi, Chiba ...

Station layout

The Hibiya and Tozai lines cross perpendicularly at the station and so do their platforms. The Hibiya Line has two

side platform 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 platfo ...

s with southbound trains using track 1 and northbound trains using track 2. In contrast, the Tozai Line has a single

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 o ...

with tracks on either side; platform 3 serves eastbound trains whilst platform 4 serves westbound trains.

Platforms

File:Kayabacho Station Concourse 2015.jpg, Concourse in 2015 File:Tozai Line - Kayabacho Station platforms Nov 18 2019 20 53 52 817000.jpeg, The Tozai Line island platform in 2019 File:Hibiyaline-Kayabachostation-renewal.jpg, The Hibiya Line platforms in August 2018

History

The station opened on February 28, 1963, as part of the Hibiya line, which then ran between Higashi-Ginza and Kita-Koshigaya (on the

Tōbu Isesaki Line The is a Japanese railway line operated by the private railway company Tobu Railway, extending from Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen Station in Saitama to Isesaki Station in Gunma Prefecture. The Isesaki Line can refer to the entire section between Asaku ...

). The Tōzai Line platforms opened on September 14, 1967. The station facilities were inherited by

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

Surrounding area

Kayabachō Station is located at an intersection of two major streets in southern

(specifically Nihonbashi-Kayabachō), a neighbourhood in Chūō Ward renowned for its financial history and commercial development. The

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is only a few blocks west in Nihonbashi-Kabutochō. *

Suitengūmae Station is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line in Chūō, Tokyo, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. It is connected by moving walkways to the Tokyo City Air Terminal, and Ningyocho Station is located 500 meters to the e ...

( ) (approximately 10 minutes' walk)

References

External links

Kayabachō Station information
(Tokyo Metro) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kayabacho Station Railway stations in Japan opened in 1963 Stations of Tokyo Metro Tokyo Metro Tozai Line Railway stations in Tokyo Nihonbashi, Tokyo