is a railway station in

Chiyoda, Tokyo is a special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It is known as Chiyoda City in English.Profile< ...

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(JR East) and

Tokyo Metro The is a major rapid transit system in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo Metro Co. With an average daily ridership of 6.84 million passengers, the Tokyo Metro is the larger of the two subway operators in the city; the other being the Toe ...

operate individual portions of the station.

Lines

JR East The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters ar ...

** Keihin-Tōhoku Line **

Yamanote Line The Yamanote Line ( ja, 山手線, Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban c ...

Chūō Line (Rapid) The is the name given to rapid services on the eastern section of the Chūō Main Line operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) between and stations. The official map shows services travel as far as Otsuki. Basic data *Operato ...

** Tokyo Metro Ginza Line

Station layout

Kanda consists of two separate stations that form an interchange. The elevated station is operated by JR East and the underground station is operated by the Tokyo Metro. Although they are an interchange, passengers must pass through

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and pay separate fares to switch between services.

JR East station

The JR East station is the older of the two stations and opened in 1919. It is situated on an elevated viaduct and has three island platforms serving six tracks.Kanda station map
''JR East'' Retrieved 19 January 2009 The platforms are numbered sequentially from east to west starting with platform 1.

trains use the inner platforms 2 and 3, Keihin-Tōhoku Line trains use platforms 1 and 4, and Chūō Line trains use platforms 5 and 6 as they split off from the main line north of Kanda. There are an additional two tracks east of the station; these are used for

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trains running between

Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is not far from the Ginza ...

and . There are two sets of entrances and exits (a total of four) that allow passengers to access the JR East station. The northern set, the north and east exits, offers a connection to the Ginza Line on the Tokyo Metro. The southern set, the south and west exits, has a View Plaza travel service centre. Both exits have rows of ticket machines, ticket gates, and a JR reservation office. File:JR Kanda sta 001.jpg, Ticket gates at the south and west exits File:JR Kanda sta 002.jpg, The south entrance File:JR Kanda sta 004.jpg, The west entrance File:JR Kanda Station platforms - May 30 2021 various 16 30 12 350000.jpeg, Yamanote Line (left) and Keihin-Tōhoku Line (right) platform screen doors, 2021

Tokyo Metro

The Tokyo Metro station is the newer of the two stations and opened in 1931 as part of an extension of first subway line in Asia, the Ginza Line. There is a simple island platform setup with two tracks. Platform 1 is for southbound trains to and whilst platform 2 is used for northbound trains to and . Access to the station is provided by a total of six entrances and exits. Exits and 1 and 2 are used as the connection to the JR East station and are on Chūō-dōri (中央通り). Exits 3 and 4 are on the same street but in the centre of the station near Kanda-Kajichō. Exits 5 and 6 are at the northernmost part of the station. The song "Omatsuri Mambo" (お祭りマンボ, ''Omatsuri Mambo'') by

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is used as the departure melody for the Ginza Line platforms in 2015. File:TokyoMetro Kanda sta 001.jpg, Row of ticket machines and fare table File:Tokyometro-kanda-platform.jpg, Platforms, August 2018

History

The station first opened on March 1, 1919 when the

Chūō Main Line The , commonly called the Chūō Line, is one of the major trunk railway lines in Japan. It connects Tokyo and Nagoya, although it is the slowest direct railway connection between the two cities; the coastal Tōkaidō Main Line is slightly faste ...

was extended from

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, which existed between Kanda and , to

. The tracks of

Tōhoku Main Line The Tōhoku Main Line ( ja, 東北本線, ) is a long railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The line starts from Tokyo Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo and passes through such cities as Saitama, Utsunomiya, Fuku ...

, now used by trains on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line and the

, extended from

Akihabara Station is a railway station in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. It is at the center of the Akihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods. Lines Akihabara Station is served by the following lines. JR East: * Tōhoku Main Line ** Keihin-Tohoku L ...

to Kanda and further to Tokyo on November 1, 1925. This extension completed the loop of the

. The subway station opened on November 21, 1931. On this day, the subway closed the temporary terminal at

and made Kanda Station the new terminus. The station became an intermediate station on April 29, 1932 when the line was extended to Mitsukoshimae Station. The station facilities of the Ginza Line were inherited by

after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004. The extension through Kanda Station of the

Tōhoku Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen rail line, connecting Tokyo with Aomori in Aomori Prefecture in a route length of , making it Japan's longest Shinkansen line. It runs through the more sparsely populated Tōhoku region of Japan's main ...

from its previous terminus at to breached a pair of express tracks of the Tohoku Main Line through the station. These are being reinstated by the Tōhoku Jūkan Line project. The project was due to be completed in 2013 but was subsequently delayed until 2015 as a result of the

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.An Interview with the President
on JR East website, retrieved 2009-05-13JR East Annual report 2007
on JR East website, retrieved 2009-05-13 From March 14, 2015 onwards, Keihin-Tōhoku rapid services began serving the station.

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was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Kanda being assigned station numbers JC02 for the Chūō line rapid, JK27 for the Keihin–Tōhoku Line, and JY02 for the Yamanote line. At the same time, JR East assigned the station a three-letter code to its major transfer stations; Kanda was assigned the code "KND".

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 97,589 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the fortieth-busiest station operated by JR East. In fiscal 2013, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 52,612 passengers per day (exiting and entering passengers), making it the seventieth-busiest station operated by Tokyo Metro. The average daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below. * Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

References

External links

Kanda Station information
(JR East)

(Tokyo Metro) {{DEFAULTSORT: Chūō Main Line Yamanote Line Keihin-Tōhoku Line Tokyo Metro Ginza Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Stations of Tokyo Metro Kanda Station Kanda, Tokyo Railway stations in Japan opened in 1919