Yūrakuchō Station

Template:Short description Template:Coord Template:Infobox station Template:Nihongo is a railway station in the Yūrakuchō district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. It is Tokyo Metro's fifteenth busiest station in 2016.<ref name="tokyometrostats2017">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

JR Yūrakuchō Station Ginza exit, 2020

Lines

Yūrakuchō is served by the JR East Keihin-Tōhoku Line and Yamanote Line, and the Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line subway. On Tokyo subway maps, nearby Hibiya Station is marked as an interchange and is linked to Yurakucho by underground passages.

Platforms

JR East platforms

• 
  Platforms 1 and 2
• 
  Platforms 3 and 4

Tokyo Metro platforms

• 
  Yurakucho Line platforms

History

Yūrakuchō station in 1914

The elevated JR station opened on June 25, 1910. The subway station opened on October 30, 1974.

Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in July 2014, with operation scheduled to begin on 30 August 2014.<ref name="railfan20140723">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 167,365 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the fourteenth-busiest station operated by JR East.<ref name="jreast2013stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In fiscal 2013, the Tokyo Metro station was used by an average of 158,809 passengers per day (exiting and entering passengers), making it the sixteenth-busiest station operated by Tokyo Metro.<ref name="tokyometrostats2013">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The average daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	JR East	Tokyo Metro
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2000	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
2010	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || 147,303<ref name="metro2011stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2012	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || 152,102<ref name="tokyometrostats2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	167,365<ref name="jreast2013stats"/>	158,809<ref name="tokyometrostats2013"/>

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

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

External links

• The Tokyo Virtual Tour: Yūrakuchō Station Template:Webarchive
• Yamanote29: Yūrakuchō Template:Webarchive