Shin-Ōkubo Station

infobox japan station


caption=Shin-Ōkubo from the outside
name=新大久保
namerom=Shin-Ōkubo
pref=Tokyo
district=
city=
ward=Shinjuku
open= 1914
close=
presentname=
line= Yamanote Line
operator= East Japan Railway Company
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nihongo|Shin-Ōkubo Station|新大久保駅|Shin-Ōkubo-eki is a railway station located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Opened on November 15 1914, it is close to the large local Korea Town. Shin-Ōkubo station has only one exit.

Less than a kilometer north of the sprawling Shinjuku station, Shin-Ōkubo Station is located approximately 5 minutes walk from Shinjuku's famous Kabukichō district. It is also about a 3-minute walk from Ōkubo station on the Chūō-Sōbu Line.

Incidents

On 26 January 2001, a 47-year-old photographer from Yokohama and a 26-year-old Korean student died at the station when they were hit by a Yamanote Line train while trying to save a drunken Japanese man who had fallen off the platform onto the tracks and also killed in the accident. [ [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20010130a1.html Funeral rites held for men killed in failed station rescue] , The Japan Times, 30 January 2001] In 2007, "Anata wo Wasurenai", a film featured the Korean victim, was created.

Lines

*East Japan Railway Company
**Yamanote Line

Adjacent stations

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