Station 194 station videos

[bill937ca]

Some interesting videos of the places around various Tokyo train stations without the trains. You can see the placement of mail boxes, vending machines, signs and new sidewalk paving with new corner treatments. Lots of panoramic scenes of streets and station plazas.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/station194/videos

 

For example here is Murogaoka on the Odakyu Odawara line. It's a small traditional station in the heart of Tokyo (15 km from Shinjuku) yet it looks very small scale.

 

 

Here is some train action at the same station.

 

 

Here is Shimaokitazawa in the days before Odakyu trains were undergrounded.

 

 

Looks like there are some larger stations too.  The old Tokyu Shibuya.

 

 

Don't forget Keio Shinsen Station near Shibuya.

 

Edited April 27, 2016 by bill937ca

[railsquid]

Some interesting videos of the places around various Tokyo train stations without the trains. You can see the placement of mail boxes, vending machines, signs and new sidewalk paving with new corner treatments. Lots of panoramic scenes of streets and station plazas.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/station194/videos

 

For example here is Murogaoka on the Odakyu Odawara line. It's a small traditional station in the heart of Tokyo (15 km from Shinjuku) yet it looks very small scale.

 

Mukougaoka-yuuen, and in Kanagawa pref. ;)

[bill937ca]

He also has a web site, ekimae-douga that indexes all the lines and then stations.  Many Yamanote stations also.

Edited April 27, 2016 by bill937ca

[ToniBabelony]

Mukōgaoka-Yūen is a station, directly next to Noborito station (a transfer station to the JR East Nambu line only 5 min. on foot or so). Still, a lot of trains halt here, since it's also a major feeding station for all the local bus lines.

 

When I first visited Mukōgaoka-Yūen, I was surprised by the dustiness and smallness of the station. It's a very different atmosphere from the neighbouring Noborito station. Noborito is a modernised, three track station (with expansion space for a fourth), whereas Mukōgaoka-Yūen is a traditional ground level, traditional 4-track station, sandwiched between two level crossings (one pedestrian, one for all traffic), two curves and a reversing track for Shinjuku-bound morning and evening local services (one express per day in the weekend schedule). From Noborito to Shin-Yurigaoka (Ikuta, Yomiuri-Land-Mae, Yurigaoka), there are plans to elevate and quadruple the tracks. However, so far there is no concrete evidence this is actually happening at the moment, as the planned Tama line extension into Sagamighara will probably not be build any time soon. Then again, you never know! Noborito station is already prepared for quadruple tracks anyway.