Ginza Line
The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (銀座線,Ginza-sen) is the grandmother of all Asia's underground lines and its first section was opened in 1927. Like many grandmothers, its operations are centred on Tokyo's Ginza district, running west to Shibuya where it likes to relive its long-lost youth, and northwards to Asakusa, where it does obscure things involving incense and traditional Japanese cloth.
Fascinating Ginza Line Fact
The Ginza Line was not originally named such as it was Tokyo's only underground line until 1953, when the Marunouchi Line was opened. Referred to originally as only "the underground line", a name became necessary to differentiate it from what would presumably otherwise have had to have been called "the other underground line".
Stations
There are 19 stations on the Ginza line.
- Shibuya
- Omotesandō
- Gaienmae
- Aoyama-itchōme
- Akasaka-mitsuke
- Tameike-Sannō
- Toranomon
- Shimbashi
- Ginza
- Kyōbashi
- Nihombashi
- Mitsukoshimae
- Kanda
- Suehirochō
- Ueno-hirokoji
- Ueno
- Inarichō
- Tawaramachi
- Asakusa