Asakusa Station
Asakusa Station is a railway station in the Asakusa district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tobu Railway, Tokyo Metro, and Toei Subway. Respectively, it serves the Tobu Skytree Line, the Ginza Line, and the Asakusa Line. It is one of the termini of the Skytree Line, and the terminus of the Ginza Line.
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Station layout
The stations for the three railways within the station complex are located roughly in a north-south line: the Tobu station is located to the north of the Tokyo Metro station, which is to the north of the Toei station. There is a connecting passage between the Tobu and Tokyo Metro stations and one between the Tokyo Metro and Toei stations, but none between the Tobu and Toei stations; passengers wishing to transfer between the Tobu Railway and Toei Subway must walk at street level.The Tsukuba Express operates a station of the same name to the west. Passengers wishing to transfer to or from this station also must walk at street level.
Tobu Railway
The Tobu Railway terminal is a surface station, which occupies a portion of the Matsuya Department Store. The station is used by local and limited express trains. Although Asakusa is the most "central" terminal of the Skytree Line, it is connected to the next major terminal, Kita-Senju Station, by a length of track with sharp curves, beginning with the first stretch leaving the station, where trains have to turn 90 degrees to the right at a maximum speed of to cross the Sumida River. In part due to the station's somewhat awkward location, most "Express" and "Semi-Express" services on the Skytree Line run through to the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line instead of continuing to Asakusa.Due to the track curvature that makes the eastern end of some of the platforms narrow and dangerous, platform 1 can accommodate 8-car trains, and the other platforms can only accommodate 6-car trains. Longer trains, such as the 8-car local trains terminating on platform 2, keep the doors of the two easternmost cars closed through selective door operation.
Tokyo Metro
The Tokyo Metro station is located underground to the south of the Tobu terminal.Toei
The Toei station is located underground to the south of the Tokyo Metro station.History
Today's Tokyo Metro Asakusa Station was one of the first underground stations in Japan, opening on 30 December 1927 as the eastern terminal of the Tokyo Underground Railway to, which was later extended to become the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.The Tobu Railway terminal opened on 25 May 1931 as Asakusa Kaminarimon Station. This was renamed "Asakusa Station" on 1 October 1945.
The Toei Asakusa station opened on 4 December 1960 as part of the Toei Asakusa Line from Oshiage Station.
The station facilities of the Ginza Line were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority in 2004.
PASMO smart card coverage at this station began operation on 18 March 2007.