Akihabara Station
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The Akihabara Electric Town entrance of Akihabara Station, February 2015
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Location | 1 Soto-Kanda (JR Station) Kanda-Sakuma-chō (Tokyo Metro) Kanda-Hanaoka-chō (Tsukuba Express) Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan |
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Connections | Bus terminal |
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Opened | 1890 |
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JR Akihabara Station Showa Dori Entrance (January 2016)
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Location | 1 Soto-Kanda Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan |
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Connections | Bus terminal |
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Opened | 1890 |
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Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line No. 3 Entrance (December 2006)
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Location | Kanda-Sakuma-chō Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan |
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Connections | Bus terminal |
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Opened | 1962 |
Akihabara Station
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Platform of the station
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Location | Kanda-Hanaoka-chō Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan |
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Connections | Bus terminal |
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Opened | 2005 |
Coordinates: 35°41′54″N 139°46′25″E / 35.698240°N 139.773731°E
Akihabara Station (秋葉原駅 Akihabara-eki?) is a railway station in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. It is at the center of the Akihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods.
Akihabara Station is served by the following lines. JR East:
Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company:
The above-ground section of the station is cross-shaped, with the Chūō-Sōbu Line tracks running from east to west, and the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku Line (and Tohoku Shinkansen, which does not stop at Akihabara) from north to south.
There are two island platforms serving four tracks for the Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line on the 2nd level, and two side platforms serving two tracks for the Sobu Line Local service on the 4th level.
Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in May 2015, to be brought into operation from 20 June 2015.