Station

Shiinamachi

椎名町

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Shiinamachi
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Shiinamachi Station opened on 11 June 1924 on what is now the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, located just 1.9 km from the Ikebukuro terminus in Toshima Ward, Tokyo. The platform layout was rebuilt from a single island into two side platforms during the Shōwa 30s (1955–1964) to accommodate longer train consists, and a new station building entered service on 1 May 1986. A consolidated bridge-style station building replacing the separate north and south buildings opened on 1 October 2011, together with a north-south free passage, four elevators, six escalators and accessible toilets, the work being carried out under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's comprehensive railway station improvement scheme. The station was assigned number SI02 in fiscal 2012.

Notes

The legendary Tokiwa-sō apartment, where Osamu Tezuka and Fujiko Fujio lived alongside other manga pioneers, stood roughly halfway between Shiinamachi Station and Ochiai-minami-nagasaki Station on the Toei Ōedo Line.

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