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Akihabara Station

Akihabara Station
秋葉原駅
Akihabara Station - February 2015.jpg
The Akihabara Electric Town entrance of Akihabara Station, February 2015
Location 1 Soto-Kanda (JR Station)
Kanda-Sakuma-chō (Tokyo Metro)
Kanda-Hanaoka-chō (Tsukuba Express)
Chiyoda, Tokyo
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections Bus terminal
History
Opened 1890
Location
Akihabara Station is located in Japan
Akihabara Station
Akihabara Station
Location within Japan
AKB
JK
28
JY
03
JB
19

Akihabara Station
秋葉原駅
Showadorientrance-akihabara-jan10-2016.jpg
JR Akihabara Station Showa Dori Entrance (January 2016)
Location 1 Soto-Kanda
Chiyoda, Tokyo
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections Bus terminal
History
Opened 1890
H
15

Akihabara Station
秋葉原駅
TokyoMetro-akihabara-3-entrance.jpg
Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line No. 3 Entrance (December 2006)
Location Kanda-Sakuma-chō
Chiyoda, Tokyo
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections Bus terminal
History
Opened 1962
Akihabara Station
秋葉原駅
Tsukuba-express-01-Akihabara-station-platform.jpg
Platform of the station
Location Kanda-Hanaoka-chō
Chiyoda, Tokyo
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections Bus terminal
History
Opened 2005

Coordinates: 35°41′54″N 139°46′25″E / 35.698240°N 139.773731°E / 35.698240; 139.773731

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:

Tokyo Metro:

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.


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