Akasaka-mitsuke Station, Underground metro station in Akasaka district, Tokyo, Japan.
Akasaka-mitsuke is an underground metro station in Tokyo's Akasaka district, served by both the Ginza and Marunouchi lines. The station has two island platforms covering four tracks, spread across several levels below the street.
The station opened in 1938, during a period when Tokyo was expanding its rail network ahead of the war years. It is one of the older stations still in daily use in the city.
The name joins Akasaka, meaning red slopes, with mitsuke, a word that once referred to watchtower gates at the edges of Edo's castle districts. Walking through the station today, you pass beneath a neighborhood that still carries traces of that feudal layout in its street patterns.
The station connects directly underground to Nagatacho Station, where transfers to the Yurakucho, Hanzomon, and Namboku lines are available. Signs along the corridor are clear and easy to follow, even if you do not read Japanese.
Although the Ginza and Marunouchi lines both stop here, they operate on separate levels with no shared platform, so switching between them requires a short walk within the fare gates. Many riders assume the two lines share a single boarding area because they share a station name.
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