Mejiro Station

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Coordinates: 35.720995° N 139.706880° E

Location
Mejiro Station 目白駅
Prefecture	Tokyo (See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward	Toshima
History
Year opened	1885
Rail services
Operator(s)	East Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Yamanote Line
There is a large bus terminal at this station.

Mejiro Station (目白駅, mejiro-eki^?), is a train station of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) located in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan.

1 Lines
2 Around the station
3 History
4 Adjacent stations
5 References

[edit] Lines

Mejiro Station is served by the Yamanote Line of the East Japan Railway Company.

[edit] Around the station

Mejiro is one of the Yamanote Line's smaller stations, an oasis situated between bustling Ikebukuro and relatively quiet Takadanobaba.

There are several small shops and a bakery/cafe within the station, making it a good meeting point for people unfamiliar with the Tokyo rail system.

Mejiro Station is somewhat rare in that it possesses only a single exit. The ticket gate emerges onto Mejiro-dori with the co-ed campus of Gakushuin University and the Mejiro Elementary School to the right, and to the left a busy row of shops and restaurants. Just off Mejiro-dori, the area becomes residential and quite peaceful. The streets to the west, away from the Yamanote loop, feature a mix of typical apartment buildings spanning a few decades, and some very opulent designer houses with luxury vehicles in their garages.

By looking straight ahead from Mejiro Station's main exit, one can see well into the distance toward Ikebukuro's monument-like garbage processing center and the towering Sunshine 60 building.

[edit] History

Opened on March 16, 1885, it is now used by about 40,000 passengers each day.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Takadanobaba		Yamanote Line		Ikebukuro

v • d • e Stations of the Yamanote Line

Shinagawa - Ōsaki - Gotanda - Meguro - Ebisu - Shibuya - Harajuku - Yoyogi - Shinjuku - Shin-Ōkubo - Takadanobaba - Mejiro - Ikebukuro - Ōtsuka - Sugamo - Komagome - Tabata - Nishi-Nippori - Nippori - Uguisudani - Ueno - Okachimachi - Akihabara - Kanda - Tōkyō - Yūrakuchō - Shimbashi - Hamamatsuchō - Tamachi - Shinagawa

[edit] References

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