is a subway station on the (operated by

Tokyo Metro The is a major rapid transit system in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo Metro Co. With an average daily ridership of 6.84 million passengers, the Tokyo Metro is the larger of the two subway operators in the city; the other being the Toe ...

). It is located in the Kodenmachō neighborhood of Nihonbashi, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. Its number is H-15.

Station layout

Kodemmacho Station has two platforms separated by two tracks. Track 1 is for passengers traveling toward , and

Naka-Meguro Station is a railway station in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, jointly operated by Tokyu Corporation and Tokyo Metro. Despite its name, the station is not located in Nakameguro, but in the neighboring Kamimeguro district. Lines Naka-Meguro Station is served ...

s. Track 2 serves those heading toward and Kita-senju Stations.

Around the station

The station serves the Kodemmachō neighborhood. The area has many office buildings. The boundary of Chūō and Chiyoda wards is nearby. The Sōbu Rapid Line passes underneath Kodemmachō. However, it does not stop at the station. Passengers that want to transfer on to the Sōbu Line from Kodemmachō can walk to

Bakurochō Station is a railway station in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. The station opened on July 15, 1972. Lines *East Japan Railway Company **Sōbu Line (Rapid) Passengers can transfer to: *Higashi-nihombashi Station on the Toei Asakusa Line *Bakuro-yo ...

or Shin-Nihombashi Station, which are both less than ten minutes away on foot.

History

Kodemmacho Station opened on May 31, 1962. On March 20, 1995, three packages containing sarin were kicked from a train onto the station platform during the

sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway The was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three lines of the Tokyo Metro (then ''Teito Rapid ...

, resulting in four deaths at the station. More deaths occurred at this station than at any other of the stations attacked. The station facilities were inherited by

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

References

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