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TOKYO TOURS
Mt Fuji & Hakone
Day Tour
See this world famous Japanese Icon.
Includes return trip via Shinkansen (bullet train)
Panoramic Tokyo
Day Tour Meiji Shrine, Asakusa Guest House, National Diet Building, Imperial Palace East Garden, Asakusa Temple, Ginza, Tokyo Bay Cruise, Rainbow Bridge & Odaiba.
Cityrama Tokyo
Afternoon Tour Tokyo Tower, National Diet Building, Imperial Palace Plaza,
Asakusa Kannon Temple, Nakamise Shopping Street & Ginza.
Kyoto Highlights
Day Tour from Tokyo
The best of Kyoto in one day.
Kinkakuji Temple - Golden Pavilion
Kiyomizu Temple
Kyoto Imperial Palace
Nijo Castle
Heian Shrine
Sanjusangendo Hall
Kyoto Handicraft Center
? Questions about travel in Tokyo. Ask them in our travel forum.
Shinjuku Station (新宿駅; -eki) is the main train station in the
western city centre of Tokyo,
Japan. Located in the
commercial centre of Shinjuku ward (although the
southern part extends into Shibuya ward) it is
served by a multitude of JR, private and underground (subway) lines.
Shinjuku Station is used by an average of 3.22 million people per day,
making it the busiest train station in the world. It is also the
second-largest (after Nagoya Station) when measured by area. It serves as
the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central Tokyo
and its western suburbs. It is also the Tokyo terminal for
Odakyu's high-speed service to Odawara, Enoshima and
Hakone.
Toei Shinjuku Line (Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of
Transportation subway)
Toei Ōedo Line (Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of
Transportation subway)
Additionally, Shinjuku Station is connected by underground
passages to:
Nishi-shinjuku Station (Metro Marunouchi Line)
Shinjuku-nishiguchi Station (Toei Oedo Line)
Shinjuku-sanchome Station (Metro Marunouchi Line and
Toei Shinjuku Line)
Tochomae Station (Toei Oedo Line)
There have been plans at various points in history to
connect Shinjuku into the Shinkansen
network. Originally, the station was slated to be the southern terminus of
the Joetsu Shinkansen line to
Niigata. This plan was eventually
scrapped, but an area was reserved underneath the station for
Shinkansen platforms. In the future,
the Chuo Shinkansen may bring
high-speed rail service to Shinjuku.
Shinjuku Station History
Shinjuku Station opened in 1885 as a stop on Japan
Railway's Akabane-Shinagawa line (now part of the Yamanote Line). Shinjuku
was still a quiet community at the time and the station was not heavily
trafficked at first. The opening of the Chuo Line (1889), Keio Line (1915)
and Odakyu Line (1923) led to increasing traffic through the station. Subway
service began in 1959.
In August 1967, a freight train carrying jet fuel bound for the U.S. air
base in Tachikawa derailed and caught fire on the Chuo Rapid tracks.
The station was a major site for student protests in 1968 and 1969, the
height of civil unrest in postwar Japan.
