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 ...

district of

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, Japan, jointly operated by

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(Toei) and

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Lines

Nihombashi Station is served by the following lines.

Station layout

The Ginza Line station originally opened as 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 o ...

serving two tracks, but overcrowding prompted the construction of a

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 ...

serving Shibuya-bound trains in 1984. The island platform currently serves only Asakusa-bound trains, and the Shibuya side of the platform is fenced off. The Tōzai Line station consists of an island platform serving two tracks, while the Asakusa Line station consists of two side platforms with two tracks between them. At the Asakusa line station, passengers must choose their direction before passing through the ticket gates.

Tokyo Metro platforms

The Japanese folk song "Oedo Nihonbashi" (お江戸日本橋, ''Oedo Nihonbashi'') is used as the departure melody for the Tōzai Line platforms in 2015 and the Ginza Line platforms in 2018. File:TokyoMetro-nihombashi-platform-1-ginza-line.jpg, Ginza Line platforms, 2006 File:Nihombashi_Station_platforms_Ginza_Line_-_Feb_6_2020_2pm_14_16_17_261000.jpeg, Ginza Line platforms, February 2020 File:Nihombashi Station Tozai Line.jpg, Tozai Line platforms, March 2013 File:Nihombashi Station platforms Tozai Line - Feb 6 2020 2pm.jpeg, Tozai Line platforms, February 2020

Toei Subway platforms

File:Toei-subway-A13-Nihombashi-station-platform-20221224-154626.jpg, Asakusa Line platforms in December 2022

History

The Tokyo Underground Railway (which built the Asakusa-Shimbashi section of the Ginza Line) opened a station here on December 24, 1932, when they extended the line south to Kyōbashi. On September 1, 1941, they merged with the Tokyo Rapid Railway to form the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA). The next development was the opening of Edobashi Station on February 28, 1963, when Toei Line 1 was extended to Higashi-Ginza. Transfer was allowed between the two lines here, but the complex only became a true interchange when the Tōzai Line station opened on September 14, 1967. Toei Line 1 only received its name – the Asakusa Line – on July 1, 1978, and Edobashi station was renamed on March 19, 1989, to avoid confusion with Edogawabashi Station on the Yūrakuchō Line, which opened in 1974. The station facilities of the Ginza and Tozai lines were inherited by

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

References

External links

Tokyo Metro station information
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