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Asakusabashi Station Tokyo

浅草橋駅



The Asakusabashi (literally "Shallow Grass Bridge") station building serves two lines: the JR Sobu line, between Akihabara Station to the west, and Ryogoku Station to the east, and the Asakusa subway line between Higashi-Nihonbashi and Kuramae stations.

The station is on the north-south-running Edo-dori Avenue that intersects Yasukuni-dori Avenue just a little to the south of the station.

The JR station is on the second story of the building. It has an east and west exit, and is open between 6am and 11.30pm every day.

The Asakusa subway line station is on the underground floor and is open from around 5 am to around midnight. It has six exits: A1 to A6.


JR Asakusabashi Station began life in 1932, and the subway Asakusabashi Station in 1960.

The JR station and subway station serve about 50,000 passengers per day each, for a total of about 100,000.

The stations serve the surrounding Asakusabashi and Yanagibashi districts, well known for their numerous stores specializing in traditional Japanese dolls, as well as fireworks stores, fabric, trinket and clothing accessory stores, and even a specialty balloon store. There are several banks, convenience stores, Japanese fast food stores, a supermarket, restaurants, pachinko parlors around the station and under the elevated JR Sobu line. (NB The McDonald's still showing near the station on the Google Map has closed.)

Being in Tokyo's east end, the Asakusabashi area lacks sophistication as a shopping area, and, being small, relies for custom on residents, not visitors from other parts of Tokyo.

The only possible tourist attraction in this area is the tour boats moored in the Higashi-Kanda River, just south of the station, and that flows into the Sumida River, just east. However, most of these boats are for group hire, and are far more expensive than their size and condition warrant.


Asakusabashi station is at 1-18-11 Asakusabashi, Taito-ku, Tokyo
The JR station telephone does not have a direct telephone line for customers, but lost and forgotten inquiries can be made to the JR Lost Property Office at 050-2016-1601.

Subway station tel: 03-3866-8765

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The Moyai of Shibuya Station

渋谷駅 モヤイ像



Shibuya Station is famous for its Hachiko statue - so famous in fact that the exit near the statue is named after it. However, the south exit of Shibuya Station also has a statue - a much bigger one - that isn't as famous: the Moyai.

This massive statue is based on the moai statues of Easter Island, and was donated to Tokyo by Niijima Village in the Izu Islands south of Tokyo, which are officially a part of Tokyo. It was 1980, and the occasion was the celebration of Tokyo's 100th year as capital of Japan (which previously had been Kyoto).

Niijima Village is the source of the stone of which this statue is made. The word "moyai" is a word in the Japanese dialect of Niijima Village meaning "to work together," and by happy coincidence it sounds like "moai."

Although poor cousin to Hachiko, Shibuya Station's south exit moai is actually more memorable, in its grand, tragic simplicity, and, not least, its solitude in a spot only a minute's walk from the Shibuya shopping area - one of the Japan's most crowded places!

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Ramen

ラ-メン

I've never been a huge fan of ramen (Chinese noodles). Yes, I enjoyed the quest for the perfect noodle in Itami Juzu's movie Tampopo but the strong smell and strenuous slurping usually put me off.

Ramen restaurant at Chiryu Station

However, hunger got the better of me yesterday and I tried the 400 yen asari (light) ramen at a stand-up noodle joint at Meitetsu Chiryu Station, washed down with a 440 yen draft Asahi beer. Verdict. Not bad, at all.

Stand up ramen stalls are especially common on or around railway stations and service passengers wanting a quick snack between trains and tipsy salarymen sobering up before the last train home. Look out for the noren curtains and that characteristic smell.

Ramen restaurant at Chiryu Station

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Tsurumai Station Nagoya

鶴舞駅

Tsurumai Station in central Nagoya is on both the Tsurumai Subway Line running to Toyota city and the JR Chuo Line from Nagoya Station to Tajimi and Nakatsugawa.

Just outside the station is the large Tsurumai Park, which is famous as a raucous cherry blossom viewing spot in Nagoya.




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