is a railway station in

Shibuya, Tokyo Shibuya (渋谷区 ''Shibuya-ku'') is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. As a major commercial and finance center, it houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shinjuku Station (southern half) and Shibuya Station. As of April 1, ...

, Japan, operated by the

East Japan Railway Company 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 ...

(JR East) and the

Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation The , also known as , is a bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government which operates public transport services in Tokyo. Among its services, the Toei Subway is one of two rapid transit systems which make up the Tokyo subway system, the othe ...

(Toei). It is station E-26 under Toei's numbering system.

Station layout

JR East

The JR East station consists of two ground-level

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platfo ...

s on either side of an

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular o ...

, serving four tracks in total. File:JR Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line Yoyogi Station North Gates.jpg, North gates File:JR_Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line_Yoyogi_Station_Platform_1_(20210410).jpg, Platform 1 File:JR_Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line_Yoyogi_Station_Platform_2・3_(20210410).jpg, Platforms 2 and 3 File:JR_Chuo-Main-Line・Yamanote-Line_Yoyogi_Station_Platform_4_(20210410).jpg, Platform 4 File:JR Shinjuku station track map 2010.svg, Track layout of Yoyogi and Shinjuku stations as of 2010 Chest-high

platform edge doors Platform screen doors (PSDs), also known as platform edge doors (PEDs), are used at some train, rapid transit and people mover stations to separate the platform from train tracks, as well as on some bus rapid transit, tram and light rail s ...

were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in September 2015, and brought into use from October. There are three exits: East exit, West exit, and North exit. The latter two provide easy access to the Oedo line.

Toei

The Toei Oedo Line station has one underground island platform serving two tracks. File:Toei-subway-E26-Yoyogi-station-platform-20191201-132828.jpg, Toei platforms, December 2019 File:Oedo line Yoyogi Station ticket gates Oct 23 2020 06PM.jpeg, Ticket gates, October 2020

History

The station first opened on 23 October 1906 by a private company as a station on 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 ...

, but was nationalized only a week later when the

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...

(JNR) took over the company and all of its assessments. The underground

Toei Ōedo Line The is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei). It commenced full operations on December 12, 2000; using the Japanese calendar this reads "12/12/12" as the year 2000 equals Heisei 12. T ...

station opened on 20 April 2000.

Station numbering Station numbering is a sign system which assigns station codes consisting of a few letters and numbers to train stations. It aims to facilitate navigation for foreign travelers not familiar with the local language by using globally understood ...

was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Yoyogi being assigned station numbers JB11 for the Chūō-Sobu line, and JY18 for the Yamanote line.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 70,016 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 63rd-busiest station operated by JR East. In fiscal 2013, the Toei station was used by an average of 17,382 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for JR East in previous years are as shown below.

References

External links

JR East station information

{{Toei Oedo Line Yamanote Line Chūō-Sōbu Line Toei Ōedo Line Stations of East Japan Railway Company Stations of Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation Railway stations in Tokyo Buildings and structures in Shibuya Railway stations in Japan opened in 1906