Shinsen Station

Shinsen Station 神泉駅
West exit, April 2008
Location	Shibuya, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	Keio Corporation
Line(s)	Keio Inokashira Line
Other information
Station code	IN02
History
Opened	1933
Traffic
Passengers (FY2011)	9,871 daily

Shinsen Station (神泉駅, Shinsen-eki^?) is a railway station on the Keio Inokashira Line in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation.

Shinsen Station is served by the 12.7 km Keio Inokashira Line from Shibuya in Tokyo to Kichijōji. Located between Shibuya and Komaba-Tōdaimae, it is 0.5 km from the Shibuya terminus.

Only all-stations "Local" services stop at this station.

The station has two opposing side platforms at ground level on either side of the two tracks, which are side by side. The station building is built above the tracks. Although it is considered to be an above-ground station, most of the station is actually within a tunnel so it is somewhat like an underground station.

The effective length of the platform was once only enough to accommodate three 18 m long train cars. As a result, the doors on two cars of trains coming from Kichijoji would not open (even earlier, there was also a period in which some trains simply bypassed the station altogether). The ticket gate and station building on the Shibuya end of the station was extremely simple, in contrast to the current station, which includes a store and entrance on the Shōtō side.

Later, when the Keio 1000 series trains were introduced, which had 20-meter cars, the platform was extended by construction into the tunnel, and starting on September 28, 1995, all doors on trains stopping at the station could open. During the period when the doors would not open, on the inside of the tunnel outside the unopening doors was written the words, "The doors here do not open" (ここではドアがあきません, Koko dewa doa ga akimasen^?).