Ueno Station

Coordinates: 35°42′48″N 139°46′36″E / 35.713434°N 139.776725°E / 35.713434; 139.776725
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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; 140 years ago (1883-07-28)
Services
Preceding station Logo of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) JR East Following station
Tokyo
Terminus
Tōhoku Shinkansen Ōmiya
towards Shin-Aomori
Tōhoku Shinkansen Ōmiya
towards Morioka
Tōhoku Shinkansen Ōmiya
towards Kōriyama
Yamagata Shinkansen Ōmiya
towards Shinjō
Akita Shinkansen Ōmiya
towards Akita
Jōetsu Shinkansen Ōmiya
towards Niigata
Jōetsu Shinkansen Ōmiya
towards Gala-Yuzawa
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Ōmiya
towards Nagano
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Ōmiya
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Ōmiya
towards Nagano
Other services
JY JK JU JJ G H
Preceding station Logo of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) JR East Following station
Okachimachi
JY04
Next clockwise
Yamanote Line Uguisudani
JY06
Next counter-clockwise
Akihabara
AKBJK28
towards Yokohama
Keihin–Tōhoku Line
Rapid
(weekdays)
Tabata
JK34
towards Ōmiya
Okachimachi
JK29
towards Yokohama
Keihin–Tōhoku Line
Rapid
(weekends / holidays)
Keihin–Tōhoku Line
Local
Uguisudani
JK31
towards Ōmiya
Terminus Kusatsu Akabane
ABNJU04
Minakami Akabane
ABNJU04
towards Minakami
Akagi Akabane
ABNJU04
towards Takasaki
Tokyo
TYOJU01
Terminus
Utsunomiya / Takasaki lines
Rapid Rabbit & Urban
Akabane
ABNJU04
towards Utsunomiya or Maebashi
Utsunomiya / Takasaki lines
Local
Oku
JU03
towards Kuroiso or Maebashi
Tokyo
TYOJU01
towards Shinagawa
Hitachi Kashiwa
JJ07
(limited service)
towards Sendai
Tokiwa Nippori
NPRJJ02

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

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.[1]

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

Lines[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Station layout in 2009 (before removal of track 18)

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.[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
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

Tokyo Metro platforms[edit]

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 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 G Ginza Line for Ginza and Shibuya
2 G Ginza Line for Asakusa

History[edit]

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. 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, 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.[3]

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.[4][5]

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".[6][7]

TH Liner services on the Hibiya Line between Ebisu and Kuki commenced on 6 June 2020.[8]

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.[9]

Passenger statistics[edit]

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.[10] 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.[11]

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

Fiscal year JR East Tokyo Metro
1999 195,654[12]
2000 189,388[13]
2005 179,978[14]
2010 172,306[15]
2011 174,832[16] 201,602[17]
2012 183,611[18] 212,509[19]
2013 181,880[10] 211,539[11]
  • Note that JR East figures are for boarding passengers only.

Bus services[edit]

Highway buses[edit]

See also[edit]

In Literature[edit]

  • Tokyo Ueno Station, by Yu Miri, English tr. by Morgan Giles (Tilted Axis, 2019. ISBN 978-1911284161 // Penguin Randomhouse, 2020. ISBN 978-0593088029)

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

35°42′48″N 139°46′36″E / 35.713434°N 139.776725°E / 35.713434; 139.776725