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Major railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan "Tokyo Ueno Station" redirects here. For novel by Miri Yu, see Tokyo Ueno Station (novel). For the Keisei Electric Railway station, see Keisei Ueno Station.
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Ueno Station
上野駅
Main building of the station
General information
Location7 Ueno (JR Station)
3 Higashi-Ueno (Tokyo Metro)
Taitō, Tokyo
Japan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections
History
Opened28 July 1883; 141 years ago (1883-07-28)
Services
Preceding station [REDACTED] JR East Following station
TokyoTerminus Tōhoku ShinkansenHayabusa Ōmiyatowards Shin-Aomori
Tōhoku ShinkansenYamabiko Ōmiyatowards Morioka
Tōhoku ShinkansenNasuno Ōmiyatowards Kōriyama
Yamagata ShinkansenTsubasa Ōmiyatowards Shinjō
Akita ShinkansenKomachi Ōmiyatowards Akita
Jōetsu ShinkansenToki Ōmiyatowards Niigata
Jōetsu ShinkansenTanigawa Ōmiyatowards Gala-Yuzawa
Hokuriku ShinkansenKagayaki Ōmiyatowards Nagano
Hokuriku ShinkansenHakutaka Ōmiyatowards Jōetsumyōkō
Hokuriku ShinkansenAsama Ōmiyatowards Nagano
Other services
JY JK JU JJ G H
Preceding station [REDACTED] JR East Following station
OkachimachiJY04Next clockwise Yamanote Line UguisudaniJY06Next counter-clockwise
AkihabaraAKBJK28towards Yokohama Keihin–Tōhoku LineRapid (weekdays) TabataJK34towards Ōmiya
OkachimachiJK29towards Yokohama Keihin–Tōhoku LineRapid (weekends / holidays)
Keihin–Tōhoku LineLocal UguisudaniJK31towards Ōmiya
Terminus Kusatsu AkabaneABNJU04towards Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi
Akagi AkabaneABNJU04towards Takasaki
TokyoOne-way operation Utsunomiya / Takasaki linesRapid Rabbit & Urban AkabaneABNJU04towards Utsunomiya or Takasaki
TokyoTYOJU01Terminus Utsunomiya / Takasaki linesLocal OkuJU03towards Kuroiso or Maebashi
TokyoTYOJU01towards Shinagawa Hitachi KashiwaJJ07
(limited service)towards Sendai
Tokiwa NipporiNPRJJ02
(limited service)towards Takahagi
Jōban LineSpecial Rapid NipporiNPRJJ02towards Tsuchiura
Jōban LineRapid NipporiNPRJJ02towards Toride
Jōban LineLocal-Futsuu NipporiNPRJJ02towards Sendai
Preceding station [REDACTED] Tokyo Metro Following station
Ueno-hirokojiG15towards Shibuya Ginza Line InarichoG17towards Asakusa
AkihabaraH16towards Ebisu TH Liner Shin-KoshigayaTS20towards Kuki
Naka-okachimachiH17towards Naka-meguro Hibiya Line IriyaH19towards Kita-Senju
Location
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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 Jōban 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 Tōkaidō Main Line, allowing through services to Shinagawa, Yokohama, Odawara and Atami stations.

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

Hirokoji entrance, 2020
Central ticket gate, 2019

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

JR East platforms

Station layout in 2009 (before removal of track 18 and construction of the Ueno-Tokyo Line)

The station has two main levels of tracks and underground platforms for the Tōhoku 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 Tōkaidō 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.


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
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
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 Yamanote Line platform 2 in March 2016 following the addition of low-height platform edge doors
  • Platforms 14 and 15 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 Hibiya Line for Ginza, Roppongi and Naka-Meguro
2 H Hibiya Line for Kita-Senju
TS Tobu Skytree Line for Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen
TN Tobu Nikko Line for Minami-Kurihashi
1 Ginza Line for Ginza and Shibuya
2 G Ginza Line for Asakusa
  • The Ginza Line platform 1 in October 2018 The Ginza Line platform 1 in October 2018
  • The Ginza Line platform 2 in January 2018 The Ginza Line platform 2 in January 2018
  • The Hibiya Line platforms in August 2021 The Hibiya Line platforms in August 2021
  • JR Ueno Station District Gate 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
  • 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

Ueno Station opened on 28 July 1883.

After the destruction of the first building in the fires caused by the 1923 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 the Battle of Ueno where excavated.

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

During World War II and the following years, many war orphans found refuge in the station and its underground tunnels. Following World War II, the neighbourhood in front of Ueno Station was a major center of black market activity. Today, many people come to the area to visit Ameya-Yokochō.

In March 1985, the Tōhoku Shinkansen was extended south from Ōmiya to Ueno, with the line extended further south to Tokyo in June 1991.

The station facilities of the Ginza and Hibiya Lines were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.

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.

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".

TH Liner services on the Hibiya Line between Ebisu and Kuki commenced on 6 June 2020.

The new park exit, 2021

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.

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. 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.

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

Fiscal year JR East Tokyo Metro
1999 195,654
2000 189,388
2005 179,978
2010 172,306
2011 174,832 201,602
2012 183,611 212,509
2013 181,880 211,539
  • Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

Bus services

Highway buses

See also

In Literature

References

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