Naka-Meguro Station

Railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan

Naka-meguro Station (中目黒駅, Naka-meguro-eki) is a railway station in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, jointly operated by Tokyu Corporation and Tokyo Metro. Despite its name, the station is not located in Nakameguro, but in the neighboring Kamimeguro district.

Lines

Naka-meguro Station is served by the following lines:

• Tōkyū Tōyoko Line
• Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line

Naka-meguro Station serves as the transfer point between the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line and the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, connecting Yokohama with the districts of Roppongi, Akihabara, Ginza, and Tsukiji in Tokyo, and beyond. The Tōyoko Line continues towards Yokohama, to the districts of Minato Mirai 21, Chinatown, and Motomachi via the Minato Mirai Line.

Station layout

The station is composed of two island platforms serving a total of four platforms. Tokyu and Tokyo Metro share the same station grounds and platforms. Trains bound for the Hibiya Line use the inner two platforms and tracks, while Tokyu Toyoko Line trains use the outside two platforms and tracks.^[3]

Platforms

• 
  Ticket gates, March 2010
• 
  Platform, May 2018

History

A TRTA 3000 series EMU at Naka-meguro after arriving on a Hibiya Line through working, 1977. The train on the right is a Tokyu 7200 series.

• The station opened on 28 August 1927. It has always been elevated.
• On 22 July 1964, the Hibiya Line was extended to Naka-meguro Station as the terminus of the line at the time from Kasumigaseki.
• Services between Hiyoshi and Kita-Koshigaya (on the Tobu Skytree Line) began on 29 August that year. At the same time, the station became an express stop.
• On the morning of 20 March 1995, terrorist Toru Toyoda boarded the Hibiya Line train at Naka-meguro Station with two packets of sarin nerve agent, which were subsequently released at the next stop at Ebisu Station, as part of the wider Tokyo subway sarin attack.
• The Naka-Meguro train disaster occurred on 8 March 2000.
• The station became a limited express and commuter limited express stop on 19 March 2003.
• Scenes of the 2003 film Lost in Translation were filmed around there.^[4][5]
• On 16 March 2013, the Tokyu Toyoko Line began through services with Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line. Consequently, Tokyu Toyoko Line's through service with Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line at this station was discontinued. All Hibiya Line trains now terminate at this station.^[6]

References

1. 2019年度乗降人員 [Number of passengers in FY2019] (in Japanese). Japan: TOKYU RAILWAYS Co., Ltd. 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-01-01. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
2. 各駅の乗降人員ランキング 2019年度 [Station usage ranking FY2019] (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 10 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
3. "Naka-meguro Station/H01 | Route/Station Information | Tokyo Metro Line". www.tokyometro.jp. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
4. "Lost in Translation Filming Locations: Daikanyama Air and Nakameguro". 30 August 2021.
5. "Detail｜Search List｜TOKYO LOCATION GUIDE｜TOKYO LOCATION BOX OFFICIAL SITE".
6. "東急東横線・東京メトロ日比谷線の相互直通運転が終了" [Through operation between the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line ends]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 16 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2022.

External links

Media related to Naka-Meguro Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Tokyu Naka-meguro Station (in Japanese)
• Tokyo Metro Naka-meguro Station (in English)
• Tokyo Metro Naka-meguro Station (in Japanese)

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