Awajichō Station

Awajicho Station (淡路町駅, Awajichō-eki) is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Metro runs this station.

LinesEdit

Awajicho Station is served by the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, and is 7.2 km from northern end of the line at Ikebukuro.^[1] The station is numbered as "M-19".

The station gives underground passenger connections to Ogawamachi Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line and Shin-Ochanomizu Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line.

Station designEdit

Awajicho - Ogawamachi Station

This station has two side platforms that is on the basement ("B1F") level. It has two tracks. Platform 1 is accessed from entrances A1 to A3, and platform 2 can be accessed from entrances A4 to A5. Access for passengers between the two platforms is also provided from an underpass at the south end of the station.

PlatformsEdit

The west side ticket barriers next to the ticket barriers to Ogawamachi Station in May 2007
The Sudacho ticket barriers in May 2016
The platforms in May 2016

HistoryEdit

This station opened on 20 March 1956.^[1]

Station informationEdit

In 2014, the station was used by around 55,155 people everyday.

Areas near the stationEdit

The Holy Resurrection Cathedral that is near this station

SchoolsEdit

Meiji University
Nihon University
Chiyoda Elementary School

Other stationsEdit

Ogawamachi Station (S Toei Shinjuku Line)
Shin-Ochanomizu Station (C Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line)
Kanda Station
Manseibashi Station (closed)

ReferencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 214. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.

Other websitesEdit

Tokyo Metro station information (in Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°41′42″N 139°46′03″E / 35.69492°N 139.76746°E / 35.69492; 139.76746

[terada2013-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 214. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.

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