Shimbashi Station

For the original Shimbashi Station opened in 1872, see Shiodome Freight Terminal.

Shimbashi Station 新橋駅
East side of JR Shimbashi Station West Exit
General information
Location	Minato, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Tokyo Metro Toei Subway
Line(s)	Keihin-Tōhoku Line Tōkaidō Main Line Yamanote Line Yokosuka Line Tokyo Metro Ginza Line Toei Asakusa Line Yurikamome
History
Opened	1909
Previous names	Karasumori (until 1914)
Passengers
JR East, FY2013	254,945 daily

Shimbashi Station (新橋駅, Shinbashi-eki) is a major interchange railway station in Tokyo's Minato Ward, located centrally and a 10-minute walk from the Ginza shopping district, directly south of Tokyo station.

Station layout

JR East

The JR East station consists of three surface platforms serving the Tōkaidō, Yamanote, and Keihin-Tōhoku lines, and an underground platform serving the Yokosuka Line.

Surface platforms

1	■ Tōkaidō Main Line	for Fujisawa, Hiratsuka, Odawara, and Atami
2	■ Ueno-Tokyo Line	for Ueno, Saitama, Utsunomiya (via Utsunomiya Line), Takasaki (via Takasaki Line) and Ibaraki (via Jōban Line)
3	■ Keihin-Tōhoku Line	for Shinagawa, Yokohama, and Ofuna
4	■ Yamanote Line	for Shinagawa, Shibuya, and Shinjuku
5	■ Yamanote Line	for Tokyo, Ueno, and Ikebukuro
6	■ Keihin-Tōhoku Line	for Tokyo, Ueno, and Saitama

Underground platform

1	■ Yokosuka Line	for Yokohama, Ofuna, and Kurihama
2	■ Yokosuka Line	for Tokyo, Funabashi, and Chiba

Tokyo Metro

Tokyo Metro operates in an underground station with two side platforms serving the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.

1	○ Tokyo Metro Ginza Line	for Akasaka-Mitsuke and Shibuya
2	○ Tokyo Metro Ginza Line	for Ginza, Ueno, and Tokyo Metro, Toei, Tobu

Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei)

Toei operates in an underground station with two side platforms serving the Toei Asakusa Line.

1	○ Toei Asakusa Line	for Sengakuji and Nishi-Magome Keikyu Main Line for Haneda Airport and Misakiguchi
2	○ Toei Asakusa Line	for Nihombashi, Oshiage Keisei Main Line for Narita Airport, Shibayama Chiyoda Hokuso Line for Imba-Nihon-Idai

Yurikamome

Yurikamome Shimbashi Station entrance

The terminus for the Yurikamome is an elevated station next to the JR station.

1/2

■ Yurikamome

for Tokyo, Tokyo, and Toyosu

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Tokaido Main Line
Tokyo		Commuter Rapid		Shinagawa
Tokyo		Rapid Acty		Shinagawa
Tokyo		Local		Shinagawa
Tōkaidō Line-(via Ueno-Tokyo Line)-Joban Line
Tokyo		-		Shinagawa
Yamanote Line
Yūrakuchō		-	Hamamatsuchō
Keihin-Tōhoku Line
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Yūrakuchō		Local		Hamamatsuchō
Yokosuka Line
Tokyo		Local		Shinagawa
Toei Asakusa Line (A-10)
Tokyo (A-09)		Airport Limited Express		Nihombashi (A-13)
Daimon (A-09)		-	Higashi-ginza (A-11)
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (G-08)
Toranomon (G-07)		-	Ginza (G-09)
Yurikamome (U-01)
Terminus		-	Shiodome (U-02)

History

Shinbashi Station, early 20th century

Shimbashi is the original terminus of Japan's first stretch of railway, the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is one of Japan's oldest stations (the oldest station being Shinagawa, a few kilometres down the line). The original Shimbashi Station, opened on October 10, 1872, was built some way to the east of the modern-day structure and was known as Shimbashi Teishajō (新橋停車場).

The present-day structure opened on 16 December 1909 as Karasumori Station (烏森駅) on the Yamanote Line. With the extension of the Tōkaidō Main Line along its modern-day route to the new terminus at Tokyo Station in 1914, the original station was demolished to make way for a goods yard, Shiodome Station (汐留駅), and Karasumori Station was renamed Shimbashi Station.

Japan's first subway line, operated by the Tokyo Underground Railroad Company, was extended to Shimbashi in 1934. In January 1939, the Tokyo Rapid Railway Company built a second subway station at Shimbashi for its line from Shibuya. After several months, the lines were merged to allow through service, and the TRR station was closed. In 1941 the two companies merged forming today's Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. The Ginza Line operated from a single platform until 1980, when a second parallel platform was opened to relieve congestion.

The Toei Asakusa Line began service to Shimbashi in 1968, and the elevated Yurikamome station opened in 1995.

Shiodome Station closed in 1986. The site was declared a national monument in 1996 and the area was archeologically investigated while being redeveloped as a commercial district ("Shiosite") with a number of large office blocks. In 2003 a reconstruction of the original Shimbashi Station building and part of the platforms was completed. It currently houses a railway history exhibit and a restaurant.

Shinbashi literally means "Newbridge" in Japanese.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 254,945 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the seventh busiest station operated by JR East.

The JR East passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	230,393
2005	236,116
2010	244,916
2011	243,890
2012	250,682
2013	254,945

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

External links

• Shimbashi Station information (JR East) Template:Ja icon
• Shimbashi Station information (Tokyo Metro) Template:Ja icon
• Shimbashi Station information (Toei) Template:Ja icon
• Shimbashi Station information (Yurikamome)