Tokyo Station (東京駅 Tōkyō-eki?)

 

 

Tokyo Station 東京駅
Tokyo Station, Marunouchi frontage
Location
Prefecture	Tokyo (See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward	Chiyoda
History
Year opened	1914
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East JR Central Tokyo Metro
Line(s)	Tōkaidō Shinkansen Tōhoku Shinkansen Yamagata Shinkansen Akita Shinkansen Jōetsu Shinkansen Nagano Shinkansen Chūō Main Line Keihin-Tōhoku Line Keiyō Line Sōbu Main Line Tōkaidō Main Line Yamanote Line Yokosuka Line Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line

 

 

Tokyo Station (東京駅 Tōkyō-eki^?) is a railway station in the Marunouchi business district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, near the Imperial Palace grounds and the Ginza commercial district.
It is the main intercity rail terminal in Tokyo, the busiest station in Japan in terms of number of trains per day (over 3,000), and the fifth-busiest in Eastern Japan in terms of passenger throughput.^[1] It is the starting point and terminus for most of Japan's Shinkansen high-speed rail lines, and is served by many local and regional commuter lines of Japan Railways, as well as the Tokyo Metro network.

Familiar red bricks of Tokyo Station uncovered

BY KAZUNORI HAGA STAFF WRITER

2012/04/03

The familiar red of Tokyo Station's Marunouchi building is revealed again. (Mari Endo)The Marunouchi building in the early days (Provided by the Railway Museum)

The iconic red-brick exterior of Tokyo Station was visible to the public on April 1 for the first time in three-and-a-half years as work continued to restore the building to its original form.