Talk:Tokyo Station

Revenue : per day or per year?
"Tokyo Station does hold the distinction of being the highest revenue-earning station in Japan, with ¥247m ($2.13m US) in ticket sales in 2005." This is ambiguous: if the units are correct (million of JPY), it must be the revenue per day. Or if it's for the full year 2005, if the figure of 247 is correct, then the unit has to be billion of JPY. In any event, clarification needed.

How old is image of Tokyo station?

 * I'd like to know when this image was taken. The cars seem like 80s model cars.  Has the building changed in appearance since this photo was taken?


 * Judging from the surrounding buildings, I would say they are both recent. There is a new tower being built opposite side on the north, and it appears the construction crane visible in Marunouchi side photo is at that location so that would date it to around 2005 or early 2006. jcp 12:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The photo of the Yaesu side with the taxis is from January or February 2005, I believe. If that's the photo you're interested in, I can look it up for you. Fg2 12:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ownership
Which part of Japan Railways is the station owned - JR East or JR Tokai? Big  top  08:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * JR East jcp 12:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Please format names uniformly
Whichever way you want it, please be consistent: Tatsuno Kingo (Family-Given) Terunobu Fujimori (Given-Family) Hara Takashi (Family-Given)


 * The name order is set by WP:MOS-JA. If Tatsuno and Hara were born before the Meiji era, then, Family-Given is correct; while Fujimori was born after that, so, Given-Family is correct.  Sometimes, consistency within an article is a real problem, and, it might be worth a discussion at the manual of style to see if we should bend the rules for links to people in articles like this.  I don't have any idea how that discussion would turn out. Neier 02:17, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I viewed wikipedia a lot and see many different styles about japan train lines and train stations are used. Wouldn't it be wise to add everything in a XML file and generate a uniform layout from it ? I did some work already. It can be found at mobiletraveler xml file. I also wrote an application ussing this information. If people would help me to complete the XML file. I will take some effort to write a small application that can generate uniform HTML code from it so it can be used in wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ron.verheij (talk • contribs) 11:35, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Passenger statistics date inconsistency
I have noticed that this article gives passenger statistics for FY1913 whereas the station itself did not open until 1914. Is there a reason for this? Thank you in advance, JTST4RS (talk) 11:10, 31 August 2014 (UTC)


 * You're right. It was me that added the statistics, and I've rechecked the source, which definitely says "1913" (Taisho 2), but as that conflicts with the fact that the station did not open until late 1914, it might be better just to snip the figures for that year completely as being suspect. --DAJF (talk) 10:12, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your reply. I have tracked down the sources that the ja article uses for the passenger statistics as a digital copy on the National Diet Archives. Indeed according to p. 241 (126 in the digital copy) there is no indication of passenger statistics for a Tokyo station in 1913, but  p. 756 (386 in the digital copy) indicates an annual boarding figure of 553,105 in 1914 (which the ja article divides by 102, the number of days it was open in FY1914, to give 5423 per day). I have decided to replace the "1913" data with this 1914 data but I have kept it as an annual average to avoid the confusion over division. I hope this is OK, JTST4RS (talk) 12:27, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree that looks like the best solution. Thanks for finding that source. --DAJF (talk) 09:15, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

platforms on different levels
I have noticed while looking at the station on google earth that platforms 1-2, and shinkansen platforms are about one level higher than the main platform level. should this be noted in the article? Also, i will change the section of the platform maps that says "ground level" to "main level", since there are actually no platforms at ground level. Bajor9 (talk) 15:23, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

The Chuo line platforms are indeed one level up, but the Shinkansen are only about 2-3m above the others, so you get a good view, but it's not a whole floor. Alex Sims (talk) 01:09, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This photo on Flickr shows what I mean Alex Sims (talk) 01:21, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Yaesu part is in Chuo-ku
Please note that the Yaesu part of Tokyo station is in Chuo-ku. Yaesu is a district within Chuo-ku. Please note this address: Yaesu Central Exit JR東京駅 八重洲中央口 1 Chome-10-1 Yaesu, Chūō, Tōkyō-to 103-0028 |link 126.209.200.51 (talk) 17:26, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It’s true that Tokyo Station has some exits named Yaesu, but Tokyo Station including those parts should be within Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku. See the official website.
 * If you disagree, please provide a reliable source. (Google Maps is not reliable, I think.) Thank you.—Chiro08 (talk) 23:18, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

The address itself I think should be reliable enough. If you zoom in, you'll see the Yaesu Underground Central Exit branches all the way into Yaesu, Chuo. This is the Chuo Tourist Office's guide to the Yaesu underground area: https://centraltokyo-tourism.com/en/spot/detail/100302021 126.209.206.205 (talk) 05:50, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yaesu Shopping Mall is not a part of Tokyo Station. Would you show another source?--Chiro08 (talk) 07:43, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Maronouchi side or frontage?
I do acknowledge that previous revisions of the page says "Maronouchi frontage" as the first image's description. I want a clarification to why the term "frontage" is used and why are people insisting that the term is more preferrable than "side", even if Tokyo station does indeed have two sides and no front?