Lines
This station is served by the following lines:
- Tokyo Metro
- Ginza Line
- Hibiya Line
- East Japan Railway Company
- Akita Shinkansen
- Nagano Shinkansen
- Jōetsu Shinkansen
- Tōhoku Shinkansen
- Yamagata Shinkansen
- Jōban Line
- Keihin-Tōhoku Line
- Takasaki Line
- Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line)
- Yamanote Line
As this station was the traditional point of arrival and departure for journeys to northern Japan, it became the inspiration for many poems and song lyrics, including a famous tanka by Ishikawa Takuboku. There is a memorial plate about this poem in the station.
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Famous quotes containing the word lines:
“Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
Through the vest which seems to hide them;
As the radiant lines of morning
Through the clouds ere they divide them;
And this atmosphere divinest
Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinest.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of families traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land.... The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)
“When first my lines of heavenly joys made mention,
Such was their luster, they did so excel,
That I sought out quaint words and trim invention;
My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell,
Curling with metaphors a plain intention,
Decking the sense as if it were to sell.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)