Ueno Station

Ueno Station (上野駅, Ueno-eki) is a major railway station in Tokyo's Taitō ward. It is the station used to reach the Ueno district and Ueno Park—which contains Tokyo 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 northern Japan, although with the extension of the Shinkansen lines to Tokyo Station this role has diminished in recent years. A similar extension of conventional lines extended Takasaki Line, Utsunomiya Line and Joban Line services to Tokyo Station via the Ueno-Tokyo Line in March 2015, using existing little-used tracks and a new viaduct; the Ueno-Tokyo Line connects these lines with the Tokaido Main Line, allowing through services to Shinagawa, Yokohama, Odawara and Atami stations.[1]

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Ueno Station

上野駅
Main building of the station
Location7 Ueno (JR Station)
3 Higashi-Ueno (Tokyo Metro)
Taitō, Tokyo
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections
History
Opened28 July 1883
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station
Tokyo
Terminus
 Tōhoku Shinkansen
(limited service)
 Ōmiya
toward Shin-Aomori
Tōhoku Shinkansen
(limited service)
 Ōmiya
toward Morioka
Tōhoku Shinkansen Ōmiya
toward Kōriyama
Yamagata Shinkansen
Tsubasa		 Ōmiya
toward Shinjō
Akita Shinkansen
Komachi		 Ōmiya
toward Akita
Jōetsu Shinkansen Ōmiya
toward Niigata
Jōetsu Shinkansen Ōmiya
toward Gala-Yuzawa
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Kagayaki
Hakutaka
 Ōmiya
toward Kanazawa
Hokuriku Shinkansen Ōmiya
toward Nagano
Other services
JY JK JU JJ G H
Preceding station JR East Following station
Okachimachi
JY04
Next clockwise
 Yamanote Line Uguisudani
JY06
Next counter-clockwise
Akihabara
AKBJK28
toward Yokohama
 Keihin–Tōhoku Line
     Rapid (weekdays)
 Tabata
JK34
toward Ōmiya
Okachimachi
JK29
toward Yokohama
 Keihin–Tōhoku Line
     Rapid (weekends / holidays)
Keihin–Tōhoku Line
     Local
 Uguisudani
JK31
toward Ōmiya
Terminus Akagi Akabane
ABNJU04
toward Maebashi
Kusatsu Akabane
ABNJU04
toward Manza-Kazawaguchi
Minakami Akabane
ABNJU04
toward Minakami
Utsunomiya / Takasaki Lines
     Commuter Rapid
 Oku
JU03
toward Utsunomiya or Takasaki
Tokyo
TYOJT01JU01
(through to Tokaido Main Line)
Terminus
 Utsunomiya / Takasaki Lines
Rapid Rabbit & Urban
 Akabane
ABNJU04
toward Utsunomiya or Takasaki
Utsunomiya / Takasaki Lines
     Local & Rapid Acty
 Oku
JU03
toward Kuroiso or Takasaki
Tokyo
TYOJT01JU01
toward Shinagawa
 Hitachi Kashiwa
JJ07
(limited service)
toward Sendai
Tokiwa Nippori
NPRJJ02

(limited service)
toward Takahagi
Jōban Line
     Special Rapid
 Nippori
NPRJJ02
toward Tsuchiura
Jōban Line
Local-Futsuu
 Nippori
NPRJJ02
toward Sendai
Jōban Line
Rapid
 Nippori
NPRJJ02
toward Toride
Preceding station Tokyo Metro Following station
Ueno-hirokoji
G15
toward Shibuya
 Ginza Line Inaricho
G17
toward Asakusa
Akihabara
H16
toward Ebisu
 TH Liner Shin-Koshigaya
TS20
toward Kuki
Naka-okachimachi
H17
toward Naka-meguro
 Hibiya Line Iriya
H19
toward Kita-Senju
Location
Ueno Station
Location within Special wards of Tokyo
Ueno Station
Ueno Station (Tokyo)
Ueno Station
Ueno Station (Japan)

Ueno Station is close to Keisei-Ueno Station, the Tokyo terminus of the Keisei Main Line to Narita Airport Station.

Lines

This station is served by the following lines:

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 famous poem by Ishikawa Takuboku. There is a memorial plate about this poem in the station.

Station layout
Main hall, 2019
One of the entrances of the station

Like most major stations in Japan, Ueno station contains and is surrounded by extensive shopping arcades. Ueno's includes a branch of the Hard Rock Cafe.

JR East platforms
Station layout in 2009 (before removal of track 18)

The station has two main levels of tracks and a deep underground station for the Tohoku Shinkansen tracks. Through tracks 1 to 4 on two island platforms on the main level are used by Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line trains. Tracks 5 to 9 on two island platforms and one side of a terminal platform lead to the Ueno-Tokyo Line to Tokyo Station and beyond on the Tokaido 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-high platform edge doors were installed on the two Yamanote Line platforms (2 and 3) in November 2015, and brought into use from December.[2]

1 JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line for Tabata, Akabane, Minami-Urawa, and Ōmiya
2 JY Yamanote Line for Tabata, Ikebukuro, and Shinjuku
3 JY Yamanote Line for Tokyo and Shinagawa
4 JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line for Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama
JK Negishi Line for Ōfuna
5-8 JU Utsunomiya Line for Ōmiya, Koga, Oyama, Utsunomiya, and Kuroiso
JU Takasaki Line for Ōmiya, Ageo, Kumagaya, and Takasaki
6 JJ Jōban Line for Matsudo, Toride, Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Tomobe, and Mito
■ Narita Line for Narita (via Abiko)
7-9 JU Ueno–Tokyo Line for Tokyo, Shinagawa, Yokohama and Odawara
8 ■ Jōban Line □ Ltd. Express Hitachi / Tokiwa for Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Tomobe, Mito, Hitachi, and Iwaki
9-12 JJ Jōban Line for Matsudo, Toride, Tsuchiura, and Mito
■ Narita Line for Narita (via Abiko)
13-15 JU Utsunomiya Line for Ōmiya, Koga, Oyama, Utsunomiya, and Kuroiso
JU Takasaki Line for Ōmiya, Ageo, Kumagaya, and Takasaki
14-16 ■ Takasaki Line □ Ltd. Express Akagi / Swallow Akagi for Takasaki and Maebashi
□ Ltd. Express Kusatsu for Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi
16-17 ■ Jōban Line □ Ltd. Express Hitachi / Tokiwa for Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Tomobe , Mito, Hitachi, and Iwaki
19-20 ■ Tohoku Shinkansen for Sendai, Morioka, Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto
■ Yamagata Shinkansen for Fukushima, Yamagata, and Shinjo
■ Akita Shinkansen for Morioka and Akita
■ Joetsu Shinkansen for Takasaki and Niigata
■ Hokuriku Shinkansen for Nagano, Toyama, and Kanazawa
21-22 ■ Shinkansen for Tokyo
  • Yamanote Line platform 2 in March 2016 following the addition of low-height platform edge doors
  • Platforms 14 and 15

Tokyo Metro platforms
The Hibiya Line platforms in May 2008
The Ginza Line platforms in January 2016

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

1 H Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line for Ginza, Roppongi and Naka-Meguro
2 H Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line for Kita-Senju
TS Tobu Skytree Line for Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen
TN Tobu Nikko Line for Minami-Kurihashi
1 G Tokyo Metro Ginza Line for Ginza and Shibuya
2 G Tokyo Metro Ginza Line for Asakusa
  • The Ginza Line platform 1 in October 2018
  • The Ginza Line platform 2 in January 2018
  • The Hibiya Line platforms in January 2018
  • JR Ueno Station District Gate in January 2018
  • Ueno Park District Gate in October 2018
  • Ueno Park District Gate in October 2018

History
First station building, south entrance, 1912
Opening of current station building in 1932

The station opened on July 28, 1883. After the destruction of this first building in the fires caused by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Japanese Government Railways constructed the current station buildings. In 1927, Tokyo Underground Railway (now Tokyo Metro) opened Japan's first subway line from here to Asakusa Station. Following World War II, the neighbourhood in front of Ueno Station was a major center of black market activity. Today, that market is gathering people as a name of Ameya-Yokochō.

In March 2010, to promote the release of the Cho-Den-O Trilogy of the Kamen Rider movies, a special marking was used on the trains going to Nakano-fujimichō from Ueno, and Den-O's Rina Akiyama greeted 200 fans who rode on the first of those trains.[3][4]

Passenger statistics

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.[5] 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.[6]

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

Fiscal yearJR EastTokyo Metro
1999195,654[7]
2000189,388[8]
2005179,978[9]
2010172,306[10]
2011174,832[11]201,602[12]
2012183,611[13]212,509[14]
2013181,880[5]211,539[6]
  • Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

Bus services

Highway buses

See also

References
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