Tokyo Station

Tōkyō Station 東京駅
Tokyo Station's Marunouchi side in June 2023
General information
Other names	Tokyo Central Station
Location	Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East JR Central Tokyo Metro
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	December 20, 1914; 109 years ago (1914-12-20) (JGR) March 20, 1956; 68 years ago (1956-03-20) (Tokyo Metro)
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Tōkyō Station (Japanese: 東京駅, pronounced [to̞ːkʲo̞ːe̞kʲi]) is a major railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is not far from the Ginza commercial district. Due to the large area covered by the station, it is divided into the Marunouchi (west) and Yaesu (east) sides in its directional signage.

The station opened in 1914 as an integrated terminus for the present-day Tōkaidō Line, Tōhoku Line, and later the Chūō Line, which previously had separate termini in Tokyo. Since then, it has served as the main terminus for inter-city trains departing Tokyo westwards. The station was badly damaged during the Bombing of Tokyo on 25 May 1945 but soon resumed service. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the world’s first dedicated high-speed rail system, opened between the station and Osaka in 1964. With the extension of northbound Shinkansen lines from Ueno in 1991, the station also became a gateway to northeast Japan.

Served by the high-speed rail lines of the Shinkansen network, Tōkyō Station is the main inter-city rail terminal in Tokyo. It is the busiest station in Japan in terms of scheduled trains, with more than 4,000 trains arriving and departing daily,^[1] and the fifth-busiest in eastern Japan in terms of passenger throughput;^[2] on average, more than 500,000 people use Tōkyō Station every day.^[1] The station is also served by many regional commuter lines of Japan Railways, as well as the Tokyo Metro network.