Yūrakuchō Station
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Yūrakuchō Station entrance in April 2004
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Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan |
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Station code | Y-18 |
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Opened | 1910 |
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Coordinates: 35°40′30″N 139°45′49″E / 35.674877°N 139.763646°E
Yūrakuchō Station (有楽町駅 Yūrakuchō-eki?) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro.
Yūrakuchō is served by the JR East Keihin-Tōhoku Line and Yamanote Line, and the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line subway. On Tokyo subway maps, nearby Hibiya Station is marked as an interchange and is linked to Yurakucho by underground passages.
The elevated JR station opened on June 25, 1910. The subway station opened on October 30, 1974.
Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in July 2014, with operation scheduled to begin on 30 August 2014.
In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 167,365 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the fourteenth-busiest station operated by JR East. In fiscal 2013, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 158,809 passengers per day (exiting and entering passengers), making it the sixteenth-busiest station operated by Tokyo Metro. The average daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below.