Higashi-Mukōjima Station

TS05
Higashi-Mukōjima Station

東向島駅
TS05; Higashi-Mukōjima Station; 東向島駅
	Station entrance, April 2015
General information
Location	4-29-7 Higashi-Mukōjima, Sumida, Tokyo; （墨田区東向島4-29-7）; Japan
Operated by	Tobu Railway
Line(s)	TS Tobu Skytree Line
History
Opened	1902
Previous names	Tamanoi (until 1988)
Passengers
	16,867 daily
Services

Higashi-Mukōjima Station (東向島駅, Higashi-Mukōjima eki) is a railway station on the Tobu Skytree Line in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tobu Railway.^[1]

Lines

The station is served by the Tobu Skytree Line from Asakusa Station in Tokyo to Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen in Saitama Prefecture. It is located 3.2 km from Asakusa Station.^[2]

Station layout

Higashi-Mukōjima Station has two opposite side platforms serving two tracks.

Platforms

1	TS Tobu Skytree Line	for Kita-Senju, Kasukabe, Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen, Kuki, and Minami-Kurihashi
2	TS Tobu Skytree Line	for Hikifune and Asakusa

The platforms in December 2022

History

The station first opened on 1 April 1902 as Shirahige Station (白鬚駅), but operations were suspended from 15 July 1905, and the station was formally closed from 4 April 1908. It reopened as Tamanoi Station (玉ノ井駅) on 1 October 1923 following urban regrowth after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. On 12 December 1987, the station was renamed Higashi-Mukōjima Station.^[2]

Surrounding area

Tobu Museum, located beneath the elevated station and tracks, with viewing windows located beneath the platforms
Mukōjima Hyakkaen, flower garden dating from the Edo period
Tokyo Metropolitan Sumidagawa High School
Route 6 (Mito Kaidō)
Meiji Dōri

References

^ ^a ^b Higashi-Mukōjima Station information Archived 23 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12 March 2009 (in Japanese)
^ ^a ^b Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 197. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.