Shijo-mae Station
Encyclopedia
Shijō-mae Station is a train station
on the Yurikamome
Line, in Kōtō
, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
. Its station number is U-14. The station opened on 27 March 2006.
The station's name literally means "In Front of the Marketplace." No market currently exists (the station is fronted on both sides by vacant fields); the Tokyo Central Wholesale Market (more popularly known as the Tsukiji fish market
), however, is scheduled to move to the area in 2012. The station and the neighboring Shin-Toyosu Station are bypassed by trains during the busy Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival.
.
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
on the Yurikamome
Yurikamome
, formally the is an automated guideway transit service operated by the Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Corporation, connecting Shimbashi to Toyosu, passing through the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo, Japan, a market in which it competes with the cheaper Rinkai Line.The line is named after the...
Line, in Kōtō
Koto, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 442,271 and a population density of 11,070 persons per km². The total area is 39.48 km². The ward refers to itself as Kōtō City in English....
, Tokyo Prefecture, 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 number is U-14. The station opened on 27 March 2006.
The station's name literally means "In Front of the Marketplace." No market currently exists (the station is fronted on both sides by vacant fields); the Tokyo Central Wholesale Market (more popularly known as the Tsukiji fish market
Tsukiji fish market
The , commonly known as the , is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors....
), however, is scheduled to move to the area in 2012. The station and the neighboring Shin-Toyosu Station are bypassed by trains during the busy Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival.
Station layout
The station consists of an elevated island platformIsland 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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