Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Are you spending your time with the New Year?

We will resume a series that introduces the history and episodes of railways in Chuo-ku. This time, I would like to take up the underground station of JR running in the city.

JR's predecessor was the Japan National Railways (Japanese National Railways), but in 1972 (Showa 47), when the Tokyo-Kinshicho was opened as the first underground track of the Japanese National Railways, "Nipponbashi" And "Bakurocho" have been installed. It was quite rare at that time.

"Bakurocho" station is located around Bakurocho, famous for its wholesale district, and is also used as a transfer station to the Toei Asakusa Line and Shinjuku Line.
Above the station, the scenery of Tokyo where cars come and go spreads, and it is difficult to create that the JR Trunk Line runs below it.

This "Bakurocho Station" has been famous as the "lowest station in Japan" since its opening.

There is a platform about 30 meters below the ground.

After that, Tokyo Station on the JR Keiyo Line was further established, and Yoshioka Kaikyo Line (in the Seikan Tunnel), which is the lowest above sea level, was established, so it seems that the name was returned, but it seems that it was long and deep station Has been longed.

It has a friendly relationship with Nobeyama Station (Komi Line), which is famous as the highest station during the Japanese National Railways era, and a commemorative object has been set up on the station premises.　

The next station, Shin-Nihonbashi Station, is located in Nihonbashi Muromachi.

There is a subway "Mitsukoshi-mae" station in the immediate vicinity, and it is a convenient place close to "Kanda" station.

In this area, there was a [Nagasakiya] in the Edo period that Nagasaki Mayor Dutch trading post (Capitan) stayed in Edo when he came to Edo for an audience with the shoguns.

Reference: Central inhabitant of a ward cultural property Chuo inhabitant of a ward cultural property 67 "Nagasakiya trace"

Another thing to remember is Hatchobori Station on the JR Keiyo Line.
This was opened in 1990. It's a transfer station to the Hibiya Line.
It was a town where power and concentric lived in the Edo period, and at the same time, it was also a logistics base utilizing water transportation, and even now most waterways have been reclaimed, you can feel the atmosphere of the past.
It's also good to walk around the Sumida River.　

If you think that not only commuter trains but also limited express trains such as [Narita Express] and [Wakashio] are running underground in Chuo-ku, this town is a town where various people come and go after all I think.