Akihabara Station 秋葉原駅
The Akihabara Electric Town entrance of Akihabara Station in February 2015
General information
Location	1 Soto-Kanda (JR Station) Kanda-Sakuma-chō (Tokyo Metro) Kanda-Hanaoka-chō (Tsukuba Express) Chiyoda City,Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Tokyo Metro Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company
Connections	S08Iwamotocho Station Bus Terminal
History
Opened	1 November 1890; 135 years ago (1890-11-01)
Location Akihabara Station Location within Tokyo Yamanote Loop Show map of Tokyo Yamanote Loop Akihabara Station Akihabara Station (Tokyo wards area) Show map of Tokyo wards area Akihabara Station Akihabara Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Akihabara Station (秋葉原駅,Akihabara-eki) is an interchange railway station inChiyoda,Tokyo,Japan. It is at the center of theAkihabara shopping district specializing in electronic goods.

Akihabara Station is served by the following lines.
JR East:

• Tōhoku Main Line
  • JKKeihin-Tohoku Line
  • JYYamanote Line
• Sōbu Main Line
  • JBChūō-Sōbu Line

Tokyo Metro:

• HHibiya Line

Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company:

• Tsukuba Express

The above-ground section of the station is cross-shaped, with the Chūō-Sōbu Line tracks running from east to west, and the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku Line (andTohoku Shinkansen andUeno–Tokyo Line, which do not stop at Akihabara) from north to south.

AKBJK28JY03JB19 Akihabara Station 秋葉原駅
JR Akihabara Station Showa Dori Entrance in January 2016
General information
Location	1Soto-Kanda,Chiyoda City,Tokyo Japan
Coordinates	35°41′54″N139°46′23″E / 35.69833°N 139.77306°E /35.69833; 139.77306
Operated by	JR East
Lines	Tōhoku Main Line Sōbu Main Line (Branch) Yamanote Line
Platforms	2island platforms (Keihin-Tōhoku and Yamanote Lines) 2side platforms (Sōbu Line)
Connections	Bus terminal
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Other information
Station code	AKB (JR East) JK28 (Keihin-Tōhoku Line) JY03 (Yamanote Line) JB19 (Sōbu Line)
Website	Official website
History
Opened	1 November 1890; 135 years ago (1890-11-01)
Passengers
2021 (Daily)	161,529
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Kanda KNDJY02 Next clockwise Yamanote Line Okachimachi JY04 Next counter-clockwise Kanda KNDJK27 towardsYokohama Keihin–Tōhoku Line Rapid (weekdays) Ueno UENJK30 towardsŌmiya Keihin–Tōhoku Line Rapid (weekends, holidays) Local Okachimachi JK29 towardsŌmiya Ochanomizu JB18 towardsMitaka Chūō–Sōbu Line Asakusabashi JB20 towardsChiba
Location

There are twoisland platforms serving four tracks for the Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line on the 2nd level, and twoside platforms serving two tracks for the Sobu Line Local service on the 4th level.

Chest-highplatform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in May 2015, to be brought into operation from 20 June 2015.^[1]

• 
  Platform 1 and 2 in June 2022
• 
  Platform 3 and 4 in June 2022
• 
  Platform 5 and 6 in June 2022

H16 Akihabara Station 秋葉原駅
Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line No. 3 Entrance in December 2021
General information
Location	Kanda-Sakuma-chō Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan
Coordinates	35°41′55″N139°46′31.8″E / 35.69861°N 139.775500°E /35.69861; 139.775500 (Tokyo Metro Akihabara Station)
Operated by	Tokyo Metro
Line	HHibiya Line
Platforms	2side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus terminal
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Station code	H16
History
Opened	31 May 1962; 63 years ago (1962-05-31)
Services
Preceding station Tokyo Metro Following station Kayabachō H13 towardsEbisu TH Liner Ueno H18 towardsKuki Kodemmachō H15 towardsNaka-meguro Hibiya Line Naka-Okachimachi H17 towardsKita-Senju
Location

There are two undergroundside platforms serving two tracks.

The song "Koi Suru Fortune Cookie" byAKB48 is to be used as the departure melody on the Hibiya Line platforms from spring 2016.^[2]

• 
  Hibiya Line platforms in December 2021

Akihabara Station 秋葉原駅
Tsukuba Express No. 1 Entrance in October 2005
General information
Location	Kanda-Hanaoka-chō Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan
Coordinates	35°41′55″N139°46′27.2″E / 35.69861°N 139.774222°E /35.69861; 139.774222 (Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company Akihabara Station)
Operated by	Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company
Line	Tsukuba Express
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	24 August 2005
Services
Preceding station Tsukuba Express Following station Terminus Tsukuba Express Rapid Commuter-Rapid Semi-Rapid Local Shin-okachimachi (TX02) towardsTsukuba
Location

There is an undergroundisland platform serving two tracks.

G	Street level	Exits/Entrances, connection to JR services
B1F	Upper Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, ticket/Pasmo/Suica vending machines,FamilyMart, shopping, elevator to platform
B2F	Center Mezzanine	Staircases and escalators to Lower Mezzanine
B3F	Lower Mezzanine	Staircases and escalators to platform
B4F Platform level	1	TXTsukuba Express towardsTsukuba(Shin-Okachimachi) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
	2	TX Tsukuba Express towards Tsukuba(Shin-Okachimachi) →

1, 2

Tsukuba Express

forMinami-Nagareyama,Moriya, andTsukuba

• 
  Tsukuba Express platforms in May 2023

Akihabara Station was opened in November 1890 as a freight terminal linked toUeno Station via tracks following the course of the modern day Yamanote Line.

It was opened to passenger traffic in 1925 following the construction of the section of track linking Ueno withShimbashi viaTokyo Station and the completion of the Yamanote Line. The upper level platforms were added in 1932 with the opening of an extension to the Sōbu Line from its old terminal atRyōgoku toOchanomizu, making Akihabara an important transfer station for passengers from the east of Tokyo andChiba Prefecture.

The huge growth in commuter traffic following the Second World War caused considerable congestion and was only relieved with the construction of the Sōbu line tunnel linkingKinshichō with Tokyo, bypassing Akihabara.

The Hibiya Line subway station was opened on May 31, 1962, with the line's extension fromNaka-Okachimachi toNingyōchō.

The station facilities of the Hibiya Line were inherited byTokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.^[3]

On August 24, 2005, the underground terminus of the newTsukuba Express Line opened at Akihabara. The entire station complex, including the JR station, was also refurbished and enlarged in preparation for the opening of the Tsukuba Express.^[4]

Station numbering was introduced in 2016 with Akihabara being assigned station numbers JY03 for the Yamanote line, JK28 for the Keihin-Tōhoku line, and JB19 for the Chūō-Sōbu line.^[5][6] At the same time, JR East assigned a three-letter code to their major interchange stations; Akihabara was assigned the three-letter code "AKB".

TH Liner services on the Hibiya Line betweenEbisu andKuki commenced on 6 June 2020.^[7]

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 240,327 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the ninth-busiest station operated by JR East.^[8] Over the same fiscal year, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 122,576 passengers daily (both exiting and entering passengers), making it the 23rd busiest Tokyo Metro station.^[9] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below. Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

The main attraction is theAkihabara electronics retail district to the north and west of the station.

• Iwamotocho Station (SToei Shinjuku Line)
• Suehirocho Station (GTokyo Metro Ginza Line)

• Cha 51(茶51); ForOchanomizu Station,Hongō-sanchōme Station, andKomagome Station^[17]
• Aki 26(秋26); ForKanda Station,Iwamotochō Station,Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station, andKasai Station^[17]
• Kazaguruma Akihabara Route; ForOchanomizu Station,Chiyoda City Office^[18]
• Kazaguruma Akihabara Route; ForOchanomizu Station,Chiyoda City Office^[19]

• My Town Direct Bus; ForTokyo Disney Resort,Shin-Urayasu Area^[20]
• Airport Limousine; ForHaneda Airport^[21]
• Kanto Yakimono Liner; ForKasama Station,Mashiko Station^[22]
• ForTakasaki Station,Shin-Maebashi Station,Maebashi Station, and Maebashi Bus Center^[23]
• Tono Kamaishi; ForShin-Hanamaki Station,Tōno Station,Kamaishi Station,Kirikiri, andYamada^[24]
• Yuhi; ForTsuruoka Station,Amarume Station, andSakata Station^[25]
• Southern Cross; ForKyōto Station,Ōsaka Station,Namba Station, andOsaka City Air Terminal (JR Namba Station)^[26]
• Tokyo Tokkyu New Star; ForKyōto Station,Ōsaka Station,Universal Studios Japan,Tennōji Station,Ōsaka Uehommachi Station, andFuse Station^[27]
• ForToyama Station,Kanazawa Station, andKenroku-en^[23]

• List of railway stations in Japan

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