Oshiage Station is a train station located at the Oshiage-eki-mae intersection of Metropolitan Routes 453 and 465 (Asakusa-dōri and Yotsume-dōri respectively) in Sumida, Tokyo

Sumida, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It calls itself Sumida City in English.As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 240,296 and a density of 17,480 persons per km²...

, 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...

. Its station numbers are A 20 (Toei Asakusa Line) and Z 14 (Hanzōmon Line).

It is adjacent to the site for the Tokyo Sky Tree.

History

The station opened on November 3, 1912 as the terminus of the original Keisei Railway from what is now Edogawa station on the Main Line. On December 1, 1960 it was replaced by a new station underground in preparation for through services to Toei Line 1, which opened three days later. (Line 1 was christened the Asakusa Line on July 1, 1978.) In 1989 a passagaway opened to Narihirabashi Station

Narihirabashi Station

is a railway station in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tobu Railway.-Lines:Narihirabashi Station is served by the Tōbu Isesaki Line from , and is 1.1 km from Asakusa.-Station layout:The station consists of one island platform serving two tracks....

, but this was closed when the Eidan/Tōbu platforms opened on March 19, 2003. (Eidan became Tokyo Metro on April 1, 2004.) Officially, the Tokyo Metro/Tōbu platforms are part of Narihirabashi station, although there is no connection between the two sections.

Lines

• Keisei Oshiage Line
• Tōbu Isesaki Line
• Toei Asakusa Line
• Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line
  Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line
  The is a subway line owned and operated by Tokyo Metro located in Tokyo, Japan.-Overview:The 16.8 km line serves the wards of Shibuya, Minato, Chiyoda, Chūō, Kōtō and Sumida. Hanzōmon Line trains run through onto the Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line from Shibuya Station and the Tōbu Isesaki Line from...
  
  

Station layout

There are two sets of platforms, one for Keisei/Toei at B1 level and the other for Tokyo Metro/Tōbu at B3 level. Each consists of four tracks and two 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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• On the Keisei/Toei section, trains to Nishi-Magome and the Keikyū Network leave from tracks 1, 2 or 3. Trains for Aoto and the Keisei/Hokusō/Shibayama network leave from tracks 3 and 4, although Keisei and Hokusō trains can also use track 2.
• On the Tokyo Metro/Tōbu section, trains to Shibuya and the Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line use tracks 1,2 or 3 (track 1 is for trains from the Tōbu Isesaki Line, while the other two are for trains originating from here). Track 4 is for the Tōbu Isesaki Line.

Adjacent stations

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