Ueno Station - Lines

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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