Shibuya Station

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Shibuya Station
渋谷駅
Shibuya Station viewed from the east.
Location
Prefecture Tokyo
(See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward Shibuya
History
Opened March 1, 1885
Rail services
Station number(s) G-01, Z-01, F-16
Line(s)
JR East
Yamanote Line
Saikyō Line
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Keio Electric Railway
Inokashira Line
Tokyu Corporation
Den-en-toshi Line
Tōyoko Line
Tokyo Metro
Ginza Line
Hanzōmon Line
Fukutoshin Line (from 14 June 2008)
There is a major bus terminal at this station.

Shibuya Station (渋谷駅 Shibuya-eki?) is a train station located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. With 2.4 million passengers on an average weekday in 2004, it is the third-busiest commuter rail station in Tokyo (after Shinjuku and Ikebukuro), handling a large amount of commuter traffic between the center city and suburbs to the south and west.

Contents

[edit] Lines

[edit] JR East

[edit] Private railways

[edit] Subways

Note that there is no direct connection between the two Tōkyō Metro lines, or between the two Tōkyū lines.

[edit] Station layout

The statue of Hachikō, outside the Hachikō Exit, is a famous meeting place.
The statue of Hachikō, outside the Hachikō Exit, is a famous meeting place.

The main station building is occupied by a Tokyu department store. The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, originally built and operated by a Tokyu keiretsu company, uses platforms on the third floor. The JR lines and Tōkyū Tōyoko Line use parallel platforms on the second floor, while the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line and Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line share platforms underground, and the Keiō Inokashira Line uses platforms on the second floor of the Shibuya Mark City building to the west of the main station complex. The Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line is scheduled to open in 2007, and the Tōyoko Line station will thereafter be moved underground to allow through service between the two lines starting in 2012.

There are six exits from the main JR/Tōkyū/Tōkyō Metro complex. The Hachikō Exit (ハチ公口 Hachikō-guchi?) on the west side, named for the nearby statue of the dog Hachikō and adjacent to Shibuya's famous scramble crossing, is a particularly popular meeting spot. The Tamagawa Exit (玉川口 Tamagawa-guchi?) on the west side leads to the Keiō Inokashira Line station.

[edit] JR East

1 ■Yamanote Line Meguro ・ Shinagawa ・ Tokyo
2 ■Yamanote Line Shinjuku・ Ikebukuro
3 ■Saikyō Line Shinjuku ・ Ikebukuro ・ Akabame ・ Ōmiya
■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Takasaki Line)		 Ōmiya ・ Kumagaya ・ Takasaki ・ Maebashi
■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Utsunomiya Line)		 Ōmiya ・ Oyama ・ Utsunomiya
4 ■Saikyō Line
Rinkai Line		 Ebisu ・ Ōsaki
Shin-Kiba
■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Tōkaidō Main Line)		 Yokohama ・ Ōfuna ・ Odawara
■Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
(Through service for Yokosuka Line)		 Yokohama ・ Ōfuna ・ Zushi
■Ltd. Express "Narita Express" Narita Airport

[edit] Tōkyū Tōyoko Line

Tōkyū Tōyoko Line platforms
Tōkyū Tōyoko Line platforms
1・2 ■Tōkyū Tōyoko Line Naka-Meguro ・ Jiyūgaoka ・ Yokohama ・ (Minatomirai Line) Motomachi-Chūkagai
  ■(Exit Only)  
3・4 ■Tōkyū Tōyoko Line Naka-Meguro ・ Jiyūgaoka ・ Yokohama ・ (Minatomirai Line) Motomachi-Chūkagai
  ■(Exit Only)  

[edit] Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line and Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line

  • 1 island platform with 2 tracks.
1 ■Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line Futako-Tamagawa ・ Nagatsuda ・ Chūō-Rinkan
2 ○Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line Ōtemachi ・ Oshiage ・ (Tōbu Isesaki Line) Kuki ・ (Tōbu Nikkō Line) Minami-Kurihashi

[edit] Tokyo Metro Ginza Line

A Ginza Line train arriving in Shibuya. Shibuya is the only place where the line runs above ground.
A Ginza Line train arriving in Shibuya. Shibuya is the only place where the line runs above ground.
  • 2 side platforms with 2 tracks.
1 ■(Exit Only)  
2 ○Ginza Line Akasaka-mitsuke ・ Ginza ・ Ueno ・ Asakusa

[edit] Keiō Inokashira Line

  • Bay Platforms : 2 platforms with 2 tracks.
1・2 ■Inokashira Line Shimo-Kitazawa ・ Meidaimae ・ Eifukuchō ・ Kugayama ・ Kichijōji

[edit] History

Bus terminal on the west side of Shibuya Station
Bus terminal on the west side of Shibuya Station

Shibuya Station first opened on March 1, 1885 as a stop on the Shinagawa Line, a predecessor of the present-day Yamanote Line. The station was later expanded to accommodate the Tamagawa Railway (1907; closed 1969), the Tōkyō Line (1927), the Teito Shibuya Line (1933; now the Inokashira Line), the Tōkyō Rapid Railway (1938; began through service with the Ginza Line in 1939 and formally merged in 1941), the Den-en-toshi Line (1977) and the Hanzōmon Line (1978).

[edit] Around the station

See also: Shibuya, Tokyo

Around the station is the commercial center of Shibuya. The Tokyu Department Store is connected to the east gate of the station and several other department stores are within walking distance.

There is an underground river running under the station, to the east and parallel to the JR tracks. Unlike most other Japanese department stores, the east block of Tokyu Department Store does not have retail space in the basement because of this. An escalator in the east block built over the river stops a few steps above floor level to make space for machinery underneath without digging. Rivers are deemed public space by Japanese law, so building over one is normally illegal. It is not clear why this was allowed when it was first built in 1933.

[edit] Adjacent stations

« Service »
Ebisu   Yamanote Line   Harajuku
Ebisu   Saikyō Line   Shinjuku
Ebisu Rapid Shinjuku
Ebisu Commuter Rapid Shinjuku
Shinjuku   Shōnan-Shinjuku Line   Ebisu
Shinjuku Rapid Ebisu
Shinjuku Special Rapid Ōsaki
Terminus   Keiō Inokashira Line   Shinsen
Terminus   Express   (Komaba-Tōdaimae)
Shimo-Kitazawa
Through to Hanzōmon Line   Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line   Ikejiriohashi
Through to Hanzōmon Line   Express   Sangen-jaya
Through to Den-en-toshi Line   Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line   Omotesandō
Terminus   Tōkyū Tōyoko Line   Daikan-yama
Terminus   Express   Naka-Meguro
Terminus   Commuter Ltd. Exp.   Naka-Meguro
Terminus   Ltd. Exp.   Naka-Meguro
Terminus   Tokyo Metro Ginza Line   Omotesandō


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Stations of the Yamanote Line
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Stations of the Saikyō Line

(Towards Shin-Kiba >>) Ōsaki - Ebisu - Shibuya - Shinjuku - Ikebukuro - Itabashi - Jūjō - Akabane - Kita-Akabane - Ukima-Funado - Toda-Kōen - Toda - Kita-Toda - Musashi-Urawa - Naka-Urawa - Minami-Yono - Yonohommachi - Kita-Yono - Ōmiya (Through to Kawagoe Line >>)
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Stations of the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line

--- Takasaki Line - Tōkaidō Main Line ---
Maebashi - Shin-Maebashi - Ino - Takasaki-Ton-yamachi - Takasaki - Kuragano - Shinmachi - Jimbohara - Honjō - Okabe - Fukaya - Kagohara - Kumagaya - Gyōda - Fukiage - Kita-Kōnosu - Kōnosu - Kitamoto - Okegawa - Kita-Ageo - Ageo - Miyahara - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Yokohama - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Fujisawa - Tsujidō - Chigasaki - Hiratsuka - Ōiso - Ninomiya - Kōzu - Kamonomiya - Odawara

--- Utsunomiya Line - Yokosuka Line ---
Utsunomiya - Suzumenomiya - Ishibashi - Jichi-idai - Koganei - Tochigi - Mamada - Nogi - Koga - Kurihashi - Higashi-Washinomiya - Kuki - Shin-Shiraoka - Shiraoka - Hasuda - Higashi-Ōmiya - Toro - Ōmiya - Akabane - Ikebukuro - Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu - Ōsaki - Nishi-Ōi - Shin-Kawasaki - Yokohama - Hodogaya - Higashi-Totsuka - Totsuka - Ōfuna - Kita-Kamakura - Kamakura - Zushi
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Stations of the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line
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Stations of the Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line

(thru Minami-Kurihashi, Kuki, Oshiage>>) Shibuya - Ikejiri-Ōhashi - Sangen-Jaya - Komazawa-Daigaku - Sakura-Shimmachi - Yōga - Futako-Tamagawa - Futako-Shinchi - Takatsu - Mizonokuchi - Kajigaya - Miyazakidai - Miyamaedaira - Saginuma - Tama-Plaza - Azamino - Eda - Ichigao - Fujigaoka - Aobadai - Tana - Nagatsuta - Tsukushino - Suzukakedai - Minami-Machida - Tsukimino - Chūō-Rinkan
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Tokyo Metro Ginza Line
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Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line
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Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line (In service June 2008)
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Stations of the Keiō Inokashira Line

Shibuya - Shinsen - Komaba-Tōdaimae - Ikenoue - Shimo-Kitazawa - Shin-Daita - Higashi-Matsubara - Meidaimae - Eifukuchō - Nishi-Eifuku - Hamadayama - Takaido - Fujimigaoka - Kugayama - Mitakadai - Inokashira-kōen - Kichijōji


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Mass transit in the Tokyo area (Number of lines indicated in parentheses)
JR lines
■Yamanote • ■Chūō • ■Chūō-Sōbu • ■Jōban • ■Keihin-Tōhoku • ■Keiyō • ■Saikyō •■Shōnan-Shinjuku • ■Sōbu Rapid • ■Tōkaidō • ■Utsunomiya • ■Yokosuka
Tokyo Metro lines
○Chiyoda (C) • ○Fukutoshin (F) • ○Ginza (G) • ○Hibiya (H) • ○Marunouchi (M) • ○Namboku (N) • ○Tōzai (T) • ○Yūrakuchō (Y) • ○Hanzōmon (Z)
Toei lines
Subway: ○Asakusa (A) • ○Ōedo (E) • ○Mita (I) • ○Shinjuku (S) • Guideway: Nippori-Toneri • Streetcar: Arakawa
Major / semi-major lines
Keikyū (5) • Keiō (7) • Keisei (7) • Odakyū (5) • Seibu (13) • Shin-Keisei • Sōtetsu (2) • Tōbu (12) • Tōkyū (8)
Other lines
Suburban, JR
■Hachikō • ■Kawagoe • ■Mito • ■Musashino • ■Nambu • ■Narita • ■Negishi • ■Ōme • ■Ryōmō • ■Sagami • ■Sōbu Main • ■Sotobō • ■Takasaki • ■Tōgane • ■Tsurumi • ■Uchibō • ■Yokohama
Suburban, Non-JR
Terminals
Akihabara • Chiba • Ikebukuro • Kawasaki • Kita-Senju • Ōmiya • Ōtemachi • Shibuya • Shinagawa • Shinjuku • Tokyo • Ueno • Yokohama
Miscellaneous


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Coordinates: 35°39′31″N, 139°42′6″E