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Akabane Station east exit, May 2010
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| Location | 1 Akabane, Kita, Tokyo （東京都北区赤羽1丁目） Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by |  JR East | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Tōhoku Main Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 March 1885 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FY2013 | 89,742 daily | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Akabane Station (赤羽駅, Akabane-eki) is a railway station in Kita, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).[1]
Akabane Station is served by the following lines.[2]
The station consists of four elevated island platforms serving eight tracks. The tracks of the Tōhoku Shinkansen also cross this station, above the Saikyō Line platforms.[2]
The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office and a "View Plaza" travel agency.[1]
| 1 | JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line | for Ueno, Tokyo, Yokohama and Ofuna |
| 2 | JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line | for Urawa and Ōmiya |
| 3 | JU Utsunomiya Line | for Ueno JU Ueno-Tokyo Line for Tokyo, Yokohama, and Atami |
| JU Takasaki Line | for Ueno JU Ueno-Tokyo Line for Tokyo, Yokohama, and Atami | |
| 4 | JU Utsunomiya Line | for Ōmiya, Oyama, and Utsunomiya |
| JU Takasaki Line | for Ōmiya, Kumagaya, and Takasaki | |
| 5 | JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line | for Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Yokohama and Ofuna JO Yokosuka Line for Zushi JT Tokaido Line for Odawara |
| 6 | JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line | for Ōmiya JU Takasaki Line for Takasaki JU Utsunomiya Line for Utsunomiya |
| 7 | JA Saikyō Line | for Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, and Ōsaki R Rinkai Line for Shin-Kiba  Sotetsu Line for Hazawa yokohama-kokudai and Ebina
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| 8 | JA Saikyō Line | for Musashi-Urawa, Ōmiya ■ Kawagoe Line for Kawagoe |
Akabane Station opened on 1 March 1885.[2]
In fiscal 2013, the station was used by an average of 89,742 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 47th-busiest station operated by JR East.[3] The passenger figures for previous years (boarding passengers only) are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | Daily average |
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| 2000 | 82,041[4] |
| 2005 | 86,459[5] |
| 2010 | 86,869[6] |
| 2011 | 87,346[7] |
| 2012 | 88,140[8] |
| 2013 | 89,742[3] |
35°46′41″N 139°43′15″E / 35.77806°N 139.72083°E / 35.77806; 139.72083
