is a railway station in Meguro, Tokyo

Meguro, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It calls itself Meguro City in English.Meguro hosts fifteen foreign embassies and consulates. One of Tokyo's most exclusive residential neighborhoods is located in Meguro....

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The station is located at 35.658916°N 139.683582°E.
The station is served by local trains on the Keiō Inokashira Line.

The station's name is a combination of Komaba which is name of the suburb in which it is located, and Todai-mae - which means 'in front of Todai'. Todai is the University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...

. These Komaba and Todaimae is the name of stations combined to the present station.

Station layout

There are two main exits from the station, East and West. The East Exit is close to the entrance to the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo, and to the central part of Komaba village. The West Exit leads to Komaba 2, 3 and 4.
This station has two half-elevated island platform

Island platform

An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

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Adjacent stations

External links

1. Keio Corporation - railway timetable and map