is a railway station on the

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, Japan, operated by

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.Higashi-Mukōjima Station information
Retrieved 12 March 2009

Lines

The station is served by the

from

Asakusa Station is a railway station in the Asakusa district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tobu Railway, Tokyo Metro, and Toei Subway. It forms one terminus of the original subway line in Tokyo, now the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Ginza Line. Station layo ...

in Tokyo to Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen in

Saitama Prefecture is a Landlocked country, landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (January 1, 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 Square kilometre, km2 ( ...

. It is located 3.2 km from Asakusa Station.

Station layout

Higashi-Mukōjima Station has two opposite

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 platforms, ...

s serving two tracks.

Platforms

File:Tobu-railway-TS05-Higashi-mukojima-station-platform-20221203-144518.jpg, The platforms in December 2022

History

The station first opened on 1 April 1902 as , but operations were suspended from 15 July 1905, and the station was formally closed from 4 April 1908. It reopened as on 1 October 1923 following urban regrowth after the

1923 Great Kantō earthquake The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake (, or ) was a major earthquake that struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshu at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, 1 September 1923. It had an approximate magnitude of 8.0 on the mom ...

. On 12 December 1987, the station was renamed Higashi-Mukōjima Station.

Surrounding area

Tobu Museum The is a railway museum in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It opened in May 1989, and is operated by Tobu Railway. The museum was closed from January 2009 until June 2009 for refurbishment.全国鉄道博物館ガイド (Nationwide Railway Museum Guide), ...

, located beneath the elevated station and tracks, with viewing windows located beneath the platforms * Mukōjima Hyakkaen, flower garden dating from the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

* Tokyo Metropolitan Sumidagawa High School * Route 6 (

Mito Kaidō was an old road, ''kaidō,'' in Japan starting from the center of Edobashi (today’s Nihonbashi). It was built to connect Edo with Mito in modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture. Travelers from Edo called it the Mito Kaidō, but travelers from Mito called ...

) *

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References

External links

Higashi-Mukōjima Station information
{{DEFAULTSORT:Higashimukojima Station Railway stations in Japan opened in 1902 Tobu Skytree Line Stations of Tobu Railway Railway stations in Tokyo