Yoyogi Station

35.683828°N 139.702320°E / 35.683828; 139.702320

JY18 JB11 E26 Yoyogi Station 代々木駅
The main (west) entrance in July 2012
General information
Location	1 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Toei Subway
Line(s)	JY Yamanote Line JB Chūō-Sōbu Line E Ōedo Line
Other information
Station code	JY18 (Yamanote Line) JB11 (Chūō-Sōbu Line) E-26 (Toei Oedo Line)
History
Opened	23 October 1906; 118 years ago (23 October 1906)
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Harajuku JY19 Next counter-clockwise Yamanote Line Shinjuku SJKJY17 Next clockwise Shinjuku SJKJB10 towards Mitaka Chūō–Sōbu Line Sendagaya JB12 towards Chiba Preceding station Toei Subway Following station Shinjuku E27 towards Hikarigaoka Ōedo Line Kokuritsu-kyogijo E25 towards Tochōmae
Location Yoyogi Station Location within Special wards of Tokyo Show map of Special wards of Tokyo Yoyogi Station Yoyogi Station (Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula) Show map of Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula Yoyogi Station Yoyogi Station (Tokyo) Show map of Tokyo Yoyogi Station Yoyogi Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Yoyogi Station (代々木駅, Yoyogi-eki) is a railway station in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei). It is station E-26 under Toei's numbering system.

Station layout

JR East

The JR East station consists of two ground-level side platforms on either side of an island platform, serving four tracks in total.

1	JY Yamanote Line	for Shinjuku and Ikebukuro
2	JY Yamanote Line	for Shibuya and Shinagawa
3	JB Chūō-Sōbu Line	for Shinjuku, Nakano, and Mitaka
4	JB Chūō-Sōbu Line	for Ochanomizu, Akihabara, Funabashi, and Chiba

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  North gates
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  Platform 1
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  Platforms 2 and 3
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  Platform 4
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  Track layout of Yoyogi and Shinjuku stations as of 2010

Chest-high platform edge doors were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms in September 2015, and brought into use from October.^[1]

There are three exits: East exit, West exit, and North exit. The latter two provide easy access to the Oedo line.

Toei

The Toei Oedo Line station has one underground island platform serving two tracks.

1	E Ōedo Line	for Roppongi
2	E Ōedo Line	for Hikarigaoka

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  Toei platforms, December 2019
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  Ticket gates, October 2020

History

The station first opened on 23 October 1906 by a private company as a station on the Chūō Main Line, but was nationalized only a week later when the Japanese National Railways (JNR) took over the company and all of its assessments. The underground Toei Ōedo Line station opened on 20 April 2000.^[2]

Station numbering was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Yoyogi being assigned station numbers JB11 for the Chūō-Sobu line, and JY18 for the Yamanote line.^[3][4]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 70,016 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 63rd-busiest station operated by JR East.^[5] In fiscal 2013, the Toei station was used by an average of 17,382 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[6] The daily average passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for JR East in previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	55,062[7]
2005	68,471[8]
2010	69,704[9]
2011	69,466[10]
2012	70,418[11]
2013	70,016[5]

In the 2015 data available from Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Yoyogi → Sendagaya of the local Chuo line was one of the train segments among Tokyo's most crowded train lines during rush hour.^[12]

See also

• Tokyo portal

• List of railway stations in Japan
• Transportation in Greater Tokyo

References

1. 山手線代々木駅に可動式ホーム柵が設置される [Platform edge doors installed on Yoyogi Station Yamanote Line platforms]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
2. Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
3. "⾸都圏エリアへ 「駅ナンバリング」を導⼊します" [Introduce “station numbering” to the Tokyo metropolitan area] (PDF). jreast.co.jp (in Japanese). 6 April 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
4. Kusamachi, Yoshikazu (7 April 2016). "JA・JK・JT・AKB…JR東日本、首都圏で駅ナンバリングなど導入へ" [JA, JK, JT, AKB … JR East to introduce station numbering in the Tokyo metropolitan area]. Response Automotive Media (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
5. 各駅の乗車人員 （2013年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
6. 各駅乗降人員一覧 [Station usage figures] (in Japanese). Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
7. 各駅の乗車人員 （2000年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
8. 各駅の乗車人員 （2005年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
9. 各駅の乗車人員 （2010年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
10. 各駅の乗車人員 （2011年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
11. 各駅の乗車人員 （2012年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
12. "Most Crowded Rush Hour Train Lines in Tokyo". Blog. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2024-08-11.

External links

• JR East station information (in Japanese)
• Toei station information (in Japanese)