Asakusa Station (Tsukuba Express)
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Asakusa Station 浅草駅 | |||||||||||
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 Platform level of Asakusa Station, 2018 | |||||||||||
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| Location | 3-1-11 Nishi-Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo （東京都台東区西浅草3-1-11） Japan | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company | ||||||||||
| Line | Tsukuba Express | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (1 island platform) | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
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| Station code | TX03 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 2005 | ||||||||||
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Asakusa Station (浅草駅, Asakusa-eki) is an underground railway station on the Tsukuba Express line in the Asakusa district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan,[1] operated by the private railway operator Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company. It is numbered "TX03".
This station is 600 meters (2,000 ft) to the west of the station complex of the same name serving the Tobu Skytree Line of the Tobu Railway, the Ginza Line of the Tokyo Metro, and the Asakusa Line of the Toei Subway. There are no transfer passageways between these two stations; passengers must transfer by walking at street level.
While the station is located only 300 meters from the Tawaramachi station on the Ginza Line, there is no transfer corridor between the two.
Station layout
The station has a single underground island platform located on the fourth basement ("B4F") level.
Platforms
| 1 |  Tsukuba Express |
for Kita-Senju, Minami-Nagareyama, Moriya and Tsukuba |
| 2 | Tsukuba Express |
for Akihabara |
History
The station opened on August 24, 2005.
