Yūrakuchō Station
Railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan
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JK25 JY30 Yūrakuchō Station 有楽町駅 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Yūrakuchō Station Hibiya entrance in May 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Shinjitai | 有楽町駅 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kyūjitai | 有樂町驛 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | ゆうらくちょうえき | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Connections |    Hibiya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | Y-18 JK-25 JY-30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 June 1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yūrakuchō Station (有楽町駅, Yūrakuchō-eki)(Literal: Fun Town Station) 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.[1]
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
| 1 |  Keihin-Tohoku Line |
for Tokyo, Ueno, Akabane, and Ōmiya |
| 2 |  Yamanote Line |
for Tokyo, Ueno and Ikebukuro |
| 3 | Yamanote Line |
for Shinagawa, and Shibuya |
| 4 | Keihin-Tohoku Line |
for Shinagawa, Yokohama, and Ōfuna |
Platforms 1 and 2
Platforms 3 and 4
Tokyo Metro platforms
| 1 |  Yūrakuchō Line |
for Tsukishima, Toyosu and Shin-Kiba |
| 2 | Yūrakuchō Line |
for Iidabashi and Ikebukuro Seibu Ikebukuro Line for Hannō Tobu Tojo Line for Shinrin-kōen |
Yurakucho Line platforms
History
The elevated JR station opened on June 25, 1910. The subway station was opened on October 30, 1974 by the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA).
Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in July 2014, with operation scheduled to begin on 30 August 2014.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] The average daily passenger figures for each operator in previous years are as shown below.
- Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.
