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| Location | 1 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 23 October 1906; 119 years ago (23 October 1906) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yoyogi Station (代々木駅,Yoyogi-eki) is a railway station inShibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by theEast Japan Railway Company (JR East) and theTokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei). It is station E-26 under Toei's numbering system.
The JR East station consists of two ground-levelside platforms on either side of anisland platform, serving four tracks in total.
| 1 | JY Yamanote Line | forShinjuku andIkebukuro |
| 2 | JY Yamanote Line | forShibuya andShinagawa |
| 3 | JB Chūō-Sōbu Line | forShinjuku,Nakano, andMitaka |
| 4 | JB Chūō-Sōbu Line | forOchanomizu,Akihabara,Funabashi, andChiba |
Chest-highplatform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in September 2015, and brought into use from October.[1]
There are three exits: East exit, West exit, and North exit. The latter two provide easy access to the Oedo line.
The Toei Oedo Line station has one underground island platform serving two tracks.
| 1 | E Ōedo Line | forRoppongi |
| 2 | E Ōedo Line | forHikarigaoka |
The station first opened on 23 October 1906 by a private company as a station on theChūō Main Line, but was nationalized only a week later when theJapanese National Railways (JNR) took over the company and all of its assessments. The undergroundToei Ōedo Line station opened on 20 April 2000.[2]
Station numbering 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.[3][4]
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.[5] In fiscal 2013, the Toei station was used by an average of 17,382 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[6] The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for JR East in previous years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | Daily average |
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| 2000 | 55,062[7] |
| 2005 | 68,471[8] |
| 2010 | 69,704[9] |
| 2011 | 69,466[10] |
| 2012 | 70,418[11] |
| 2013 | 70,016[5] |