Higashi-Mukōjima Station
Railway station in Tokyo, Japan
TS05 Higashi-Mukōjima Station 東向島駅 | |||||||||||
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 Station entrance, April 2015 | |||||||||||
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| Location | 4-29-7 Higashi-Mukōjima, Sumida, Tokyo （墨田区東向島4-29-7） Japan | ||||||||||
| Operated by |  Tobu Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | TS Tobu Skytree Line | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1902 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Tamanoi (until 1988) | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| [1] | 16,867 daily | ||||||||||
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Higashi-Mukōjima Station (東向島駅, Higashi-Mukōjima eki) is a railway station on the Tobu Skytree Line in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tobu Railway.[1]
Lines
The station is served by the Tobu Skytree Line from Asakusa Station in Tokyo to Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen in Saitama Prefecture. It is located 3.2 km from Asakusa Station.[2]
Station layout
Higashi-Mukōjima Station has two opposite side platforms serving two tracks.
Platforms
| 1 | TS Tobu Skytree Line | for Kita-Senju, Kasukabe, Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen, Kuki, and Minami-Kurihashi |
| 2 | TS Tobu Skytree Line | for Hikifune and Asakusa |
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The platforms in December 2022
History
The station first opened on 1 April 1902 as Shirahige Station (白鬚駅), but operations were suspended from 15 July 1905, and the station was formally closed from 4 April 1908. It reopened as Tamanoi Station (玉ノ井駅) on 1 October 1923 following urban regrowth after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. On 12 December 1987, the station was renamed Higashi-Mukōjima Station.[2]
Surrounding area
- Tobu Museum, located beneath the elevated station and tracks, with viewing windows located beneath the platforms
- Mukōjima Hyakkaen, flower garden dating from the Edo period
- Tokyo Metropolitan Sumidagawa High School
- Route 6 (Mito Kaidō)
- Meiji Dōri
References
- ^ a b Higashi-Mukōjima Station information Retrieved 12 March 2009 (in Japanese)
- ^ a b Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 197. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
External links
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Stations of the Tobu Skytree Line
- Asakusa
- Tokyo Skytree
- (through to Shibuya, Nagatsuta, and Chūō-rinkan via the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line and Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line<<)
- (Oshiage)
- Hikifune
- Higashi-Mukōjima
- Kanegafuchi
- Horikiri
- Ushida
- (through to Naka-meguro via Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line<<) Kita-Senju
- Kosuge
- Gotanno
- Umejima
- Nishiarai
- Takenotsuka
- Yatsuka
- Sōka
- Dokkyodaigakumae
- Shinden
- Gamō
- Shin-Koshigaya
- Koshigaya
- Kita-Koshigaya
- Ōbukuro
- Sengendai
- Takesato
- Ichinowari
- Kasukabe
- Kita-Kasukabe
- Himemiya
- Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen (>>through to Tōbu-Nikkō via the Tōbu Nikkō Line, through to Isesaki via the Tobu Isesaki Line)
35°43′28″N 139°49′10″E / 35.7244°N 139.8195°E / 35.7244; 139.8195
