Meidaimae Station

Meidaimae Station 明大前駅
Station entrance, September 2011
Location	Setagaya, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	Keio Corporation
Line(s)	Keio Line, Keio Inokashira Line
Other information
Station code	KO06/IN08
History
Opened	1913
Previous names	Kayakukomae; Matsubara (until 1935)

Meidaimae Station (明大前駅, Meidaimae-eki^?) is a railway station in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation.

Meidaimae Station is served by the Keio Line from Shinjuku in Tokyo, and by the 12.7 km Keio Inokashira Line from Shibuya in Tokyo to Kichijōji. On the Keio Line, it is located between Daitabashi and Shimo-Takaido, it is 5.2 km from the Shinjuku terminus. On the Inokashira Line, it is located between Higashi-Matsubara and Eifukuchō, it is 4.9 km from the Shibuya terminus.

All services on both lines stop at this station.

Meidaimae Station has three floors:

Both lines have two opposing side platforms serving two sets of tracks.

There are upward-only escalators between the Inokashira Line platforms and the concourse. Between the Inokashira Line platform and the Keiō Line platform, on the east end is an upward-only escalator, and on the west end is a downward-only escalator. There are elevators between the Inokashira Line Kichijoji-bound platform and the concourse, between the concourse and the Keio line down platform, between the Inokashira Line Shibuya-bound platform and the concourse, and between the concourse and the Keio Line up line platform.

There are toilets on the first floor, inside the ticket gates, including multi-purpose toilets.

On March 31, 2007, a new ticket gate was opened in the middle section of the Inokashira Line Kichijoji-bound platform, called Frente Exit (フレンテ口, furente guchi^?). This exit is exit-only, and connects directly to the shopping building Frente Meidaimae (フレンテ明大前, Frente Meidaimae^?), connected to the station, which opened on May 24 of the same year, run by the Keio Group. The roof covering the Kichijoji-bound platform is attached to the first floor of this building. Additionally, some of the Frente Meidaimae stores are on (that is, face and open onto) the Kichijoji-bound platform.