Shinjuku Station

Shinjuku Station 新宿駅
The south side of Shinjuku Station in November 2022
General information
Location	Shinjuku and Shibuya wards, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Keio Corporation Odakyu Electric Railway Tokyo Metro Toei Subway
Connections	SS01 Seibu-Shinjuku E01 Shinjuku-nishiguchi M09 F13 S02 Shinjuku-sanchōme Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal Shinjuku Highway Bus Terminal
Other information
Status	Active
History
Opened	1 March 1885; 139 years ago (1885-03-01)
Location Shinjuku Station Location within Special wards of Tokyo Show map of Special wards of Tokyo Shinjuku Station Shinjuku Station (Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula) Show map of Tokyo Bay and Bōsō Peninsula Shinjuku Station Shinjuku Station (Tokyo) Show map of Tokyo Shinjuku Station Shinjuku Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Shinjuku Station (新宿駅, Shinjuku-eki) is a major railway station in Tokyo, Japan, that serves as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central/eastern Tokyo (the special wards) and Western Tokyo on the inter-city rail, commuter rail, and subway lines. The station straddles the boundary between the Shinjuku and Shibuya special wards. In Shinjuku, it is in the Nishi-Shinjuku and Shinjuku districts; in Shibuya, it is in the Yoyogi and Sendagaya districts.

The station was used by an average of 3.59 million people per day in 2018, making it the world's busiest railway station by far (and registered as such with Guinness World Records).^[1] The main East Japan Railway Company (JR East) station and the directly adjacent private railways have a total of 35 platforms, an underground arcade, above-ground arcade and numerous hallways with another 17 platforms (53 total) that can be accessed through hallways to five directly connected stations without surfacing outside. The entire above/underground complex has well over 200 exits.