Tokyo Station


Tokyo Station before the Second World War started.


Tokyo Terminal is a train station located in the Marunouchi business district of Chiyoda, Tokyo,
near the imperial Palace grounds and the Ginza commercial district. It is the main intercity
rail terminal in Tokyo, and is the Japanese largest and busiest station in terms of the number
of trains, totaling about 4,000 trains per day. It is the starting point and terminus for most
of Japan's Shinkansen high-speed rail lines, and is served by many local and regional commuter
lines of Japan Railways, as well as the Tokyo Metro network.

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A restored Tokyo Station to its former building: This photography was taken in March 2013, in the state of under construction.
The station square has been completely renovated.

The Tokyo station square that is photographed in November 2019.

Tokyo Station platforms as of November 2019

(L) A souvenir snap photo of a child was taken in front of the high-speed Shinkansen on the platform of Tokyo Station.
(R) Passengers use an escalator to the platform of the commuter line, Chuo Main Line, at Tokyo Station.

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Shinkansen trains at Tokyo Central Station


Tokyo Station to celebrate 100th anniversary

To commemorate the 1914 opening, there will be a series of festive events starting this month,
such as the Yamanote loop line running a train decorated in homage to the red-brick station building,
and a special exhibit tracing the 100 years of the operations at the gallery of Tokyo Station.

The original station building was partly destroyed by a fire in an air raid in May 1945, near the end
of World War II. The building, which was repaired after the war, has long been cherished as
the gateway to the capital of Japan.

As part of the redevelopment of the Marunouchi area near the station in recent years,
there was initially a plan to dismantle the red-brick station building and construct a high-rise.
However, because of the movement of people for preserving the red-brick structure gained momentum,
the plan was dropped. Instead, the Marunouchi facade of the station underwent renovation,
that lasted five and a half years. In October, 2012, it was restored to its original appearance
from 100 years ago.
Reference: Asia News Network, January 7, 2015




(L) A plateform information of Tokyo Station (R) Many commuter trains come and go at Tokyo Station

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JR-East Japan Railway Company and JR-Tokai Japan Railway Company take a different approach
to smokers. JR-East provides a closed smoking booth on the platform. However, JR-Tokai allows
passengers to smoke on the open-air designated areas, which locates in the center of the
platform of Tokyo Station. This would represent the railway company's philosophy that JR-East
first thinks about the safety of passengers, in comparison to the JR-Tokai considers a smoker
is the main important people in the society, and we have to pay devoirs to smokers.



The JR-Tokai provided an open-space smoking site at the center part on the platform of Tokyo Station, which is prohibited after
completion of the enclosed smoking room.
An open-air smoking area was closed, and a new smoking has opened at Shinkansen platform in 2013.

A guide plate of enclosed smoking room

Air-flow dependent closed smoking booth at the JR-East side platform of Tokyo Station.
It located far from the center of Platform.

(L) Fully-packed smoking booth with smokers was observed at Tokyo terminal platform.
Two more passengers are waiting in line for space inside, photographed in March 2012.
(R) JR-Tokai's no-smoking waiting room at the platform of Tokyo Station
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Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world
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Narita Airport-City Rail Service
No more 'smoking seat' ticket was sold at the Keisei Narita Airport Station after July 2010.

All non-smoking Tokyo-Aomori bullet train 'Hayabusa' debuted in March 2011.
Maximum speed is 320 kms/H, the same level of France's TGV, the world fastest train.

All non-smoking Tokyo-Akita bullet train 'Super-Komachi' debuted in March 2013.

Shinjuku Highway Bus Terminal

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Travel by Train
All railway trains should be completely smoke -free.

$B!!(BItalia Rail: Trenitalia
$B!!(BRail Travel Ireland
$B!!(BRailways in Helsinki, Finland
$B!!(BTrain in Norway, Trondheim to Oslo

$B!!(BAmtrak Acela Express: Boston-Newyork
$B!!(BWashington DC Metro/Union Station
$B!!(BChicago CTA Rail
$B!!(BMiami Metro Rail

$B!!(BStockholm Arlanda Airport and Express
$B!!(BStockholm County Railways
$B!!(BX2000:Stockholm-Copenhagen Express
$B!!(BGreater Copenhagen Railways
$B!!(BParis Rail Terminals
$B!!(BParis Metro-RER-Tram

$B!!(BKorea Train Express, Airport Express and Metro
$B!!(BBangkok Mass Transit/Thai Railways
$B!!(BIndian Railway
$B!!(BDehli Metro
$B!!(BAirport Express and MTR, Hong Kong
$B!!(BTaiwan High-Speed Rail
$B!!(BChina High-Speed Rail

$B!!(BPortugal Metro, Railways
$B!!(BAmsterdam Rail
$B!!(BHigh-speed train in Spain 2010
$B!!(BBarcelona Railways
$B!!(BRailway Travel in France 2011
$B!!(BRailway Travel in Germany 2011
$B!!(BHigh-speed train in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2013

$B!!(BVancouver Skytrain
$B!!(BEdomonton Metro
$B!!(BVIA train, Vancouver to Jasper
$B!!(BAmtrak: Seattle to Glacier National Park
$B!!(BSan Francisco: cable-car, tram and Bart
$B!!(BAlaskan Railroad

$B!!(BMoscow Metro
$B!!(BSaint Petersburg Metro
$B!!(BSapsan, high-speed train of Russia
$B!!(BAllegro, high-speed train between Finland and Russia

$B!!(BRailways connecting Canberra and Sydney, Australia
$B!!(BGold Coast Light-Rail
$B!!(BNZ Rail: Tranz Alpine/Scenic
$B!!(BBrief Journey by Australian Rail

$B!!(BNarita Airport-City Rail Service
$B!!(BJapanese high-speed train 'Hayabusa'
$B!!(BJapanese high-speed train 'Super-Komachi'

Market Booms for new High-speed Trains
Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world

$B!!(BA newly introduced luxury sleeper train prohibits smoking in the vehicle


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The article was written and photographs were taken in 2006 - 2016,
and the Information was added in June 2019, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
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