Asakusa Station (Tsukuba Express)

Asakusa Station

浅草駅
Platform level of Asakusa Station, 2018
General information
Location3-1-11 Nishi-Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo
(東京都台東区西浅草3-1-11)
Japan
Operated byMetropolitan Intercity Railway Company
LineTsukuba Express
Platforms2 (1 island platform)
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Other information
Station codeTX03
History
Opened2005
Services
Preceding station Tsukuba Express Following station
Shin-okachimachi
(TX02)
towards Akihabara
Tsukuba Express
Rapid
Commuter-Rapid
Semi-Rapid
Local
Minami-Senju
(TX04)
towards Tsukuba
Location

Asakusa Station (浅草駅, Asakusa-eki) is an underground railway station on the Tsukuba Express line in the Asakusa district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company. It is numbered "TX03".

This station is 600 meters (2,000 ft) to the west of the station complex of the same name serving the Tobu Skytree Line of the Tobu Railway, the Ginza Line of the Tokyo Metro, and the Asakusa Line of the Toei Subway. There are no transfer passageways between these two stations; passengers must transfer by walking at street level.

While the station is located only 300 meters from the Tawaramachi station on the Ginza Line, there is no transfer corridor between the two.