Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line

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     Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line

Tōkyō Metro 10000 series for use on the Fukutoshin Line
Info
Type Rapid transit
Locale Tokyo
Termini Wakōshi
Shibuya
Stations 16
Operation
Opened 14 June 2008
Owner Tokyo Metro
Rolling stock 7000 series, 10000 series
Technical
Line length 20.2 km
Track gauge 1,067 mm
Electrification Overhead catenary 1,500 V DC
Route map

The Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line (東京地下鉄副都心線 Tōkyō Chikatetsu Fukutoshin-sen?), formally the No. 13 Fukutoshin Line (13号副都心線 Jūsangō Fukutoshin-sen?), is a Tokyo Metro subway line in west-central Tokyo, Japan. The newest line in the Tokyo subway network, it opened in stages between 1994 and 2008, and is expected to be the last subway line built by Tokyo Metro for the immediate future.[1]

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[edit] History

Construction at Kitasandō Station, 2006

Fukutoshin is Japanese for "secondary city center," and the Fukutoshin Line connects three of Tokyo's secondary city centers: Ikebukuro, Shinjuku and Shibuya. Prior to its opening, only JR East had rail service between the three (on the Yamanote Line, the Saikyō Line and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line). The new line was conceived to relieve congestion along this busy corridor, and to provide convenient through service between the northwest, the southwest and the central part of Tokyo served by the Yamanote Line.

The Fukutoshin Line is the deepest metro line in Tokyo, with an average depth of 27 meters.[2] At Shinjuku-sanchōme Station, the line passes under the Marunouchi and above the Shinjuku lines at a depth of 15 meters, with a gap of only 11 centimeters to the Shinjuku Line tunnel.[2] The deepest section is at the immediately adjacent Higashi-Shinjuku Station, where the line goes down to 35 meters, partly due to an underground space reservation for a possible future extension of the Jōetsu Shinkansen to Shinjuku.[2]

The line was initially planned in 1972 as a run from Shiki, Saitama to Shinjuku, with the possibility of further extension to Shibuya, Shinagawa and Haneda Airport. In 1985, a second Ministry of Transportation committee proposed that the line terminate at Shibuya. Part of the northern end of the original plan line became unnecessary following improvements to the Tōbu Tōjō Line and the beginning of through service from the Yūrakuchō Line.

A 3.2 km segment from Kotake-Mukaihara to Ikebukuro, running parallel to the Yūrakuchō Line on separate tracks began operation in 1994. This segment was initially known as the Yūrakuchō New Line (有楽町新線 Yūrakuchō Shin-sen?), and was operated with no intermediate stops.

The newest segment connecting Shinjuku and Shibuya via Zoshigaya, Sendagaya and Meiji Shrine, opened for service on June 14, 2008, officially completing the Fukutoshin Line. Service to the Senkawa and Kanamechō stations, which had been bypassed by the Yūrakuchō New Line, also started on the same day. Through services to Kawagoe-shi station on the Tōbu Tōjō Line, and Hannō station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line are offered.

Technical problems resulted in delays of up to 30 minutes during the Fukutoshin Line's first few days of operation.[3]

Starting in 2012, the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line will move to share the line's Shibuya terminus and offer through services on the Minatomirai Line to Motomachi-Chūkagai Station in Yokohama.

[edit] Stations

The Fukutoshin Line is the second Tokyo Metro line to feature express services, after the Tōzai Line; however, unlike the Tōzai Line (where its rapid services are only offered between Nishi-Funabashi and Tōyōchō stations), the Fukutoshin Line offers express services throughout the line, a first for Tokyo Metro. Express trains pass local trains at Higashi-Shinjuku Station, where additional tracks are installed for this purpose. Local trains still stop at all stations.

No. Station Distance (km)[4] Express stops Transfers Location
Actual Fare Base Express Commuter
express
F1 Wakōshi 0.0 0.0 X X Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (same tracks), Tōbu Tōjō Line (through service) Wakō Saitama
F2 Chikatetsu-Narimasu 2.2 2.2 X Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (same tracks) Itabashi Tokyo
F3 Chikatetsu-Akatsuka 3.6 3.6 X Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (same tracks) Nerima
F4 Heiwadai 5.4 5.4 X Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (same tracks)
F5 Hikawadai 6.8 6.8 X Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (same tracks)
F6 Kotake-Mukaihara 8.3 8.3 X X Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (through service) (same tracks), Seibu Yūrakuchō Line (through service) (same tracks)
F7 Senkawa 9.4 9.3 Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line Toshima
F8 Kanamechō 10.4 10.3 Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line
F9 Ikebukuro 11.3 11.5 X X Yamanote Line, Saikyō Line, Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, Takasaki Line, Utsunomiya Line, Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line, Tōbu Tōjō Line, Seibu Ikebukuro Line
F10 Zōshigaya 13.1 13.3 Toden Arakawa Line (Kishibojinmae Station)
F11 Nishi-Waseda 14.6 14.8 Shinjuku
F12 Higashi-Shinjuku 15.5 15.7 Toei Ōedo Line
F13 Shinjuku-sanchōme 16.6 16.8 X X Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, Toei Shinjuku Line
F14 Kitasandō 18.0 18.2 Shibuya
F15 Meiji-Jingūmae 19.2 19.4 Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line, Yamanote Line (Harajuku Station)
F16 Shibuya 20.2 20.4 X X Tōkyū Tōyoko Line (through service starting 2012), Yamanote Line, Saikyō Line, Shōnan Shinjuku Line, Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line, Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line, Keiō Inokashira Line

[edit] Rolling stock

[edit] Tokyo Metro

[edit] Trains owned by other operating companies

Tōkyō Metro 7000 series

Tōbu 50070 series

Tōbu 9000 series

Seibu 6000 series

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/archive/news/2008/06/13/20080613p2a00m0na012000c.html
  2. ^ a b c http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/tucasa_kenko/53685223.html
  3. ^ http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/archive/news/2008/06/17/20080617p2a00m0na006000c.html
  4. ^ Tokyo Metro News Release (2008-05-14)

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