Fukutoshin Shibuya Station
The new subway station on the F-line in Shibuya is remarkably large, spacious, and modern. It reminds me of the subway system in Washington D.C. for all its brushed concrete blocks and cavernous oval underground spaces.
Even now a week after it opened there are still lots of people with cameras snapping away at its sights- of course, including me.
This is the concrete hub squatting over the escalators down.
Brushed steel Fare Adjustment Kiosk.
Plate glass Information Kiosk.
People entering the Hub.
The platform is massive, with these extra two tracks running down the middle. I suspect they are designed to be used in an emergency, such as a city evacuation. The walkways will be raised up, trains stuck on the un-used track, and people ferried out to Saitama double-time. Either that, or they’ll put them into operation during projected peak times, such as if they win the 2016 Olympic bid.
More of the expanse.
A model of an underground concrete zeppelin that is weirdly overhead. I couldn’t quite fathom what this was, but it is interesting.
This is a hole up through the bottom of the zeppelin.
Here’s the tracks below and the inner-zeppelin area above.
Here’s a stretch of removable walkway covering emergency track.
The expanse again, the zeppelin overhead.
Those are some good pics. That is a really nice looking station, much better then any of the subway stations in Los Angeles (of which there are few).
Those unused tracks with the walkways over them are interesting. I wonder what they are for also. Future expansion, future express train tracks?
Thanks Jon- especially since I took these with my keitai (cell-phone). Have you used the sub-way in Washington DC? It really reminded me of that.
Fukutoshin Shibuya Station | big red dot…
If you haven’t ridden on the new F-line subway yet, then check out this posts which contains photos of it, in particular the F-line station in Shibuya. It looks totally different (and better) than any other part of Shibuya station….
I do love the Fukutoshin platform at the Shibuya Subway station.
Here’s a little tour I took on the opening weekend of the Fukutoshin line:
http://billywestevolution.com/2008/06/a-ride-on-tokyo-metros-new-fukutoshin-line/
Nice tour BillyWest, you can see my own small jaunt on opening day here:
http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/06/fukutoshin-line-opens/