TOKYO METRO

is one of two metro systems, which along with Toei, make up the Tokyo subway system.

Contents

Organization

Lines

Main Data

Through services to other lines

Stations

Rolling Stock

See also

External link

Organization

is a private company jointly owned by the Japanese government and the Tokyo metropolitan government.
It replaced the , commonly 'Eidan' or 'TRTA', on April 1, 2004. TRTA was administered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and jointly funded by the national and metropolitan governments. It was formed in 1941, although its oldest lines date back to 1927.
The other metro operator in Tokyo is the government of Tokyo, through the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, which operates the ''Toei'' system. Metro and Toei trains form completely separate networks. While users of prepaid rail passes can freely interchange between the two networks, regular ticket holders must purchase a second ticket, or a special transfer ticket, to change from a Toei line to a Metro line and vice versa.
Much effort is made to make the system accessible to non-Japanese speaking users:

★ Train stops are announced in both English and Japanese. Announcements also provide connecting line information.

★ Ticketing machines can switch between English and Japanese user interfaces.

★ Train stations are signposted in English and Japanese (in kanji and hiragana). There are also numerous signs in Chinese (in simplified characters) and Korean.

★ Train stations are now also consecutively numbered on each color-coded line, allowing even non-English speakers to be able to commute without necessarily knowing the name of the station. For example, Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line is also signposted as M-08 with the familiar red colored circle surrounding it; even if a commuter could not read the English or Japanese station names on signs or maps, he or she could simply look for the red line and then find the appropriately numbered station on said line.
Many stations are also designed to help blind people as railings often have brail at their base.
Although ticket machines are plentiful at every station, many regular Tokyo Metro commuters purchase Tokyo Metro SF Cards for convenience. These SF (Stored Fare) Cards can be purchased in pre-paid amounts of ¥1000, ¥3000 and ¥5000. These cards can currently be used on most private railways in the Kantō region as well through PASSNET. Tokyo Metro stations began accepting PASMO contactless cards in March 2007.
The Tokyo Metro is extremely punctual and has regular trains arriving less than five minutes apart most of the day and night. It does not however run 24 hours a day. Lines tend to stop service between midnight and 1:00am and commence again approximately 5:00am.
Tokyo Metro indicated in its public share offering that it would cease construction once the Fukutoshin Line is completed. Some therefore expect that the line will be the final expansion to the Tokyo Metro network, although several lines such as the Hanzōmon Line have yet to be completed as planned.

Lines

Main Data

Color on maps	Mark	Line Number	Line	Japanese	Route	Length
orange	G	Line 3	Ginza Line	銀座線	Shibuya to Asakusa	14.3 km
red	M	Line 4	Marunouchi Line	丸ノ内線	Ogikubo to Ikebukuro	24.2 km
	m		Marunouchi Line Branch Line	丸ノ内線分岐線	Nakano-sakaue to Hōnanchō	3.2 km
silver	H	Line 2	Hibiya Line	日比谷線	Naka-Meguro to Kita-Senju	20.3 km
sky blue	T	Line 5	Tōzai Line	東西線	Nakano and Nishi-Funabashi	30.8 km
green	C	Line 9	Chiyoda Line	千代田線	Yoyogi-uehara to Kita-Ayase	24.0 km
gold	Y	Line 8	Yūrakuchō Line	有楽町線	Wakōshi to Shin-Kiba	28.3 km
purple	Z	Line 11	Hanzōmon Line	半蔵門線	Shibuya to Oshiage	16.8 km
emerald green	N	Line 7	Namboku Line	南北線	Meguro to Akabane-iwabuchi	21.3 km
brown	Y,(F)	Line 13	Fukutoshin Line	副都心線	operational: Kotake-mukaibara to Ikebukuro	3.2 km
					under construction: Ikebukuro to Shibuya	8.9 km

Through services to other lines

	Line	Through Lines
G	Ginza Line	none
M	Marunouchi Line	none
H	Hibiya Line	Tōkyū Tōyoko Line (Naka-Meguro to Kikuna)
		Tōbu Isesaki Line (Kita-Senju to Tōbu Dōbutsu Kōen)
T	Tōzai Line	JR East Chūō-Sōbu Line (Nakano to Mitaka)
		JR East Sōbu Main Line (Nishi-funabashi to Tsudanuma)
		Toyo Rapid Line (Nishi-Funabashi to Tōyō Katsutadai)
C	Chiyoda Line	Odakyu Odawara Line and Odakyu Tama Line (Yoyogi-uehara to Karakida and Hon-Atsugi)
		JR East Jōban Line (Ayase to Toride)
Y	Yūrakuchō Line	Tōbu Tōjō Main Line (Wakōshi to Shinrin-kōen
		Seibu Yūrakuchō Line and Seibu Ikebukuro Line (Kotake-mukaibara to Hannō)
Z	Hanzōmon Line	Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line (Shibuya to Chūō-Rinkan)
		Tōbu Isesaki Line and Tobu Nikkō Line (Oshiage to Minami-Kurihashi or Kuki)
N	Namboku Line	Tokyu Meguro Line (Meguro to Musashi-Kosugi)
		Saitama Rapid Railway Line (Akabane-iwabuchi to Urawa-misono)
Y	Fukutoshin Line	Tōbu and Seibu line (same tracks as Yūrakuchō Line)
		Tōkyū Tōyoko Line (from Shibuya, planned)

★ Namboku Line shares tracks of the section from Meguro to Shirokane-Takanawa with Toei Mita Line, 2.3km.

Stations

The busiest stations in the Tokyo Metro network are: ''(station statistics for subway passengers only)''
# Ikebukuro Station - approx. 465,000 passengers per weekday on 3 lines
# Kita-Senju Station - approx. 330,000 passengers per weekday on 2 lines
# Ōtemachi Station - approx. 270,000 passengers per weekday on 4 lines
# Ginza Station - approx. 270,000 passengers per weekday on 3 lines
Other major transfer stations include Akasaka-mitsuke, Hibiya, Kasumigaseki, Kudanshita, Nagatachō, Omotesandō, Tameike-Sannō and Yotsuya.

Rolling Stock

★ Tōkyō Metro 01 series - Ginza Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 02 series - Marunouchi Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 03 series - Hibiya Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 05 series - Tōzai Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 07 series - Yūrakuchō Line, Tōzai Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 08 series - Hanzōmon Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 5000 series - Chiyoda Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 7000 series - Yūrakuchō Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 8000 series - Hanzōmon Line

★ Tōkyō Metro 10000 series - Yūrakuchō Line, Fukutoshin Line
Trains from other operators are also used on Tokyo Metro lines as a consequence of the through services.

See also

★ List of rapid transit systems

External link

★ Tokyo Metro