UENJU02JK30JY05JJ01G16H18 Ueno Station 上野駅
Main building of the station
General information
Location	7 Ueno (JR Station) 3 Higashi-Ueno (Tokyo Metro) Taitō,Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Tokyo Metro
Line(s)	Tōhoku Shinkansen JUUtsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line) JKKeihin-Tōhoku Line JYYamanote Line JJJōban Line GGinza Line HHibiya Line
Connections	KS01Keisei Ueno Station Bus stop
History
Opened	28 July 1883; 141 years ago (1883-07-28)
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Tokyo Terminus Tōhoku Shinkansen Hayabusa Ōmiya towardsShin-Aomori Tōhoku Shinkansen Yamabiko Ōmiya towardsMorioka Tōhoku Shinkansen Nasuno Ōmiya towardsKōriyama Yamagata Shinkansen Tsubasa Ōmiya towardsShinjō Akita Shinkansen Komachi Ōmiya towardsAkita Jōetsu Shinkansen Toki Ōmiya towardsNiigata Jōetsu Shinkansen Tanigawa Ōmiya towardsGala-Yuzawa Hokuriku Shinkansen Kagayaki Ōmiya towardsNagano Hokuriku Shinkansen Hakutaka Ōmiya towardsJōetsumyōkō Hokuriku Shinkansen Asama Ōmiya towardsNagano
Other services JYJKJUJJGH Preceding station JR East Following station Okachimachi JY04 Next clockwise Yamanote Line Uguisudani JY06 Next counter-clockwise Akihabara AKBJK28 towardsYokohama Keihin–Tōhoku Line Rapid (weekdays) Tabata JK34 towardsŌmiya Okachimachi JK29 towardsYokohama Keihin–Tōhoku Line Rapid (weekends / holidays) Keihin–Tōhoku Line Local Uguisudani JK31 towardsŌmiya Terminus Kusatsu Akabane ABNJU04 towardsNaganohara-Kusatsuguchi Akagi Akabane ABNJU04 towardsTakasaki Tokyo One-way operation Utsunomiya /Takasaki lines RapidRabbit &Urban Akabane ABNJU04 towardsUtsunomiya orTakasaki Tokyo TYOJU01 Terminus Utsunomiya /Takasaki lines Local Oku JU03 towardsKuroiso orMaebashi Tokyo TYOJU01 towardsShinagawa Hitachi Kashiwa JJ07 (limited service) towardsSendai Tokiwa Nippori NPRJJ02 (limited service) towardsTakahagi Jōban Line Special Rapid Nippori NPRJJ02 towardsTsuchiura Jōban Line Rapid Nippori NPRJJ02 towardsToride Jōban Line Local-Futsuu Nippori NPRJJ02 towardsSendai Preceding station Tokyo Metro Following station Ueno-hirokoji G15 towardsShibuya Ginza Line Inaricho G17 towardsAsakusa Akihabara H16 towardsEbisu TH Liner Shin-Koshigaya TS20 towardsKuki Naka-okachimachi H17 towardsNaka-meguro Hibiya Line Iriya H19 towardsKita-Senju
Location Ueno Station Location within Special wards of Tokyo Show map of Special wards of Tokyo Ueno Station Ueno Station (Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula) Show map of Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula Ueno Station Ueno Station (Tokyo) Show map of Tokyo Ueno Station Ueno Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Ueno Station (上野駅,Ueno-eki) is a major railway station inTokyo'sTaitō ward. It is the station used to reach theUeno district andUeno Park—which containsTokyo National Museum,The National Museum of Western Art,Ueno Zoo,Tokyo University of the Arts and other famous cultural facilities. A major commuter hub, it is also the traditional terminus for long-distance trains from northernJapan, although with the extension of theShinkansen lines toTokyo Station this role has diminished in recent years. A similar extension of conventional lines extendedTakasaki Line,Utsunomiya Line andJōban Line services toTokyo Station via theUeno-Tokyo Line in March 2015, using existing little-used tracks and a new viaduct; the Ueno-Tokyo Line connects these lines with theTōkaidō Main Line, allowing through services toShinagawa,Yokohama,Odawara andAtami stations.^[1]

Ueno Station is close toKeisei Ueno Station, the Tokyo terminus of theKeisei Main Line toNarita Airport Station.

This station is served by the following lines:

• Tokyo Metro
  • GGinza Line
  • HHibiya Line
• East Japan Railway Company
  • Tōhoku Shinkansen
  • Yamagata Shinkansen
  • Akita Shinkansen
  • Jōetsu Shinkansen
  • Hokuriku Shinkansen
  • Hokkaido Shinkansen
  • JUUtsunomiya Line (Tōhoku Main Line)
  • JUTakasaki Line
  • JKKeihin–Tōhoku Line
  • JYYamanote Line
  • JJJōban Line

As this station was the traditional point of arrival and departure for journeys to northern Japan, it became the inspiration for many poems and song lyrics, including a famouspoem byIshikawa Takuboku. There is a memorial plate about this poem in the station.

Like most major stations in Japan, Ueno Station contains and is surrounded by extensive shopping arcades. The station contains a branch of theHard Rock Cafe.

The station has two main levels of tracks and underground platforms for theTōhoku Shinkansen tracks. Through tracks 1 to 4 on twoisland platforms on the main level are used byYamanote Line andKeihin-Tohoku Line trains. Tracks 5 to 9 on two island platforms and one side of a terminal platform lead to theUeno-Tokyo Line toTokyo Station and beyond on theTōkaidō Main Line. Tracks 10 to 12 terminate inside the building, and below these on a lower deck are further terminal tracks 13 to 17 (Track No.18 has been removed). Two subterranean island platforms serve Shinkansen tracks 19 to 22.

Chest-highplatform edge doors were installed on the two Yamanote Line platforms (2 and 3) in November 2015, and brought into use from December.^[2]

• 
  Yamanote Line platform 2 in March 2016 following the addition of low-height platform edge doors
• 
  Platforms 14 and 15

Both the Ginza and Hibiya line station have two tracks; however, unlike in other Tokyo Metro stations, each line's tracks are counted separately.

• 
  The Ginza Line platform 1 in October 2018
• 
  The Ginza Line platform 2 in January 2018
• 
  The Hibiya Line platforms in August 2021
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  JR Ueno Station District Gate in January 2018
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  Ueno Park District Gate in October 2018
• 
  Ueno Park District Gate in October 2018

Ueno Station opened on 28 July 1883.

After the destruction of the first building in the fires caused by the1923 Great Kantō earthquake,Japanese Government Railways constructed the current station building. While digging the foundations of the new building, bones, swords, and lances dating from theBattle of Ueno where excavated.^[3]

In 1927, Tokyo Underground Railway (now Tokyo Metro) opened Japan's first subway line from here toAsakusa Station.

During World War II and the following years, many war orphans found refuge in the station and its underground tunnels.^[4] FollowingWorld War II, the neighbourhood in front of Ueno Station was a major center ofblack market activity. Today, many people come to the area to visitAmeya-Yokochō.

In March 1985, theTōhoku Shinkansen was extended south fromŌmiya to Ueno, with the line extended further south toTokyo in June 1991.

The station facilities of the Ginza and Hibiya Lines were inherited byTokyo Metro after the privatization of theTeito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.^[5]

In March 2010, to promote the release of theCho-Den-O Trilogy of theKamen Rider movies, a special marking was used on the trains going toNakano-fujimichō from Ueno, andDen-O'sRina Akiyama greeted 200 fans who rode on the first of those trains.^[6][7]

Station numbering was introduced to the non-Shinkansen JR East platforms in 2016 with Ueno being assigned station numbers JU02 for the Utsunomiya line, JJ01 for the Jōban Line rapid service, JK31 for the Keihin–Tōhoku Line, and JY05 for the Yamanote line. At the same time, JR East assigned the station a three-letter code to its major transfer stations; Ueno was assigned the code "UEN".^[8][9]

TH Liner services on the Hibiya Line betweenEbisu andKuki commenced on 6 June 2020.^[10]

In March 2020, the Park Exit (Ueno Park Exit) was moved to the north and the roadway in front of it was changed to a dead end, allowing pedestrians to enter Ueno Park from the station without crossing the roadway.^[11]

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by 181,880 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the thirteenth-busiest station operated by JR East.^[12] In fiscal 2013, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 211,539 passengers per day (exiting and entering passengers), making it the eighth-busiest station operated by Tokyo Metro.^[13]

The daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below.

• Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

• Sky / Panda; ForHirosaki,Aomori Station^[22]
• Yuhi; ForTsuruoka Station,Amarume Station, andSakata Station^[23]
• Tono Kamaishi; ForShin-Hanamaki Station,Tōno Station,Kamaishi Station, andYamada^[23]
• Tokyo Sunrise; ForYamagata Station,Sagae Station,Sakurambo-Higashine Station, andShinjō Station^[24]
• Rainbow;Yonezawa Station,Kaminoyama-Onsen Station, andYamagata Station^[24]
• ForChino,Matsumoto Bus Terminal, andNagano Station^[25]
• Dream Kanazawa; ForToyama Station,Kanazawa Station, andKanazawa Institute of Technology^[26]
• Kimasshi; ForKanazawa Station^[24]
• Yamato; ForTenri Station,Nara Station,Kintetsu-Kōriyama Station,Hōryū-ji,Ōji Station, andGoidō Station^[27]
• ForŌtsu Station,Yamashina Station,Sanjō Station, andKyōto Station^[28]
• Flying Liner; ForKyōto Station,Ōsaka Station,Ōsaka Namba Station,Ōsaka Abenobashi Station, andFujiidera Station^[24]
• Mamakari Liner; ForOkayama Station,Kurashiki Station^[24]

• List of railway stations in Japan
• Transport in Greater Tokyo

• Tokyo Ueno Station, byYu Miri, English tr. byMorgan Giles (Tilted Axis, 2019.ISBN 978-1911284161 // Penguin Randomhouse, 2020.ISBN 978-0593088029)

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