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History, melodies, surroundingsThe station opened as a station on the Railway Institute's Yamanote Line.
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鉄道院山手線の駅として開業。
A Seibu Railway station opened as a temporary station just before crossing over the Yamanote Line.
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西武鉄道の駅が、山手線と立体交差する手前に仮駅として開業。
The Seibu Railway station was relocated to its current position on the east side of the Yamanote Line.
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西武鉄道の駅を山手線東側の現在の位置に移設。
The station building was completely burned down during an American air raid during the Pacific War.
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太平洋戦争中にアメリカ軍の空襲を受け、駅舎を全焼。
Seibu Railway's station added an upbound platform, with the former platform becoming the downbound platform and the upbound platform becoming a temporary disembarkation platform.
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西武鉄道の駅で上りホームを新設。従来のホームは下りホームとなり、上りホームは臨時降車ホームとなる。
Teito Kōsoku Tetsudō Kōdan (Eidan Subway) Tōzai Line stations opened.
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帝都高速度交通営団（営団地下鉄）東西線の駅が開業。
The handling of connecting small freight between Japanese National Railways and Seibu Railway was abolished.
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国鉄と西武鉄道との連絡小荷物の取り扱いを廃止。
Work began on the improvement of East-West Line stations, including the expansion of platforms and concourses.
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ホーム・コンコース等の拡幅等の東西線駅改良工事に着手。
With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, the station became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
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国鉄分割民営化に伴い、国鉄の駅は東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）の駅となる。
The New Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Network Promotion Alliance, chaired by Katsumasa Yamamoto, the mayor of Shinjuku Ward, petitioned Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizō Obuchi for the Saikyō Line to stop at this station, which has 660,000 daily passengers.
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山本克忠新宿区長を会長とする新都心通勤交通網整備促進同盟（1980年）が全国8位の1日あたり66万人の乗降客がある本駅への埼京線の停車を小渕恵三内閣官房長官に陳情。
Automatic ticket gates were installed at JR East's Toyama-guchi.
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JR東日本の戸山口に自動改札機を設置。
Automatic ticket gates were installed at the Waseda entrance of JR East.
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JR東日本の早稲田口に自動改札機を設置。
The Tōzai Line station improvement work was completed, with total construction costs of approximately ¥5.38 billion.
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東西線駅改良工事が終了。総工費約53億8000万円。
The station building of Seibu Railway was renovated, the transfer ticket gates on the overpass were greatly renovated, the automatic ticket vending machines that were on the platforms were relocated to the transfer ticket gates on the 2nd floor, and platform air conditioning began to be used.
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西武鉄道の駅舎を改修。跨線橋の乗り換え改札を大改修し、ホームにあった自動精算機は2階の乗り換え改札口へ移設、ホームの冷房使用開始。
The renovation work of Seibu Railway was completed and Toyama-guchi was newly established.
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西武鉄道の改修工事が完了し、戸山口を新設。
IC card "Suica" becomes available for use on JR East.
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JR東日本でICカード「Suica」の利用が可能となる。
The Yamanote Line's departure melody became the theme song for the old series of "Tetsuwan Atom".
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山手線の発車メロディが『鉄腕アトム』（旧シリーズ）のテーマ曲となる。
With the privatization of Teito Rapid Transit Authority, the stations on the Tozai Line were inherited by Tokyo Metro.
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帝都高速度交通営団（営団地下鉄）民営化に伴い、東西線の駅は東京地下鉄（東京メトロ）に継承される。
Takadanobaba Metropia, with 4 stores, opened for business.
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高田馬場メトロピア（4店舗）が開業。
Elevators were installed on the Yamanote Line platforms.
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山手線のホームにエレベーターを設置。
IC card "PASMO" becomes available for use on Seibu Railway and Tokyo Metro.
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西武鉄道・東京メトロでICカード「PASMO」の利用が可能となる。
A mural of Osamu Tezuka's characters was completed under the JR and Seibu lines overpass at Waseda Entrance.
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早稲田口のJR・西武線高架下に手塚治虫のキャラクター壁画が完成。
The departure melody of the Seibu Shinjuku Line became a commercial song for Marukome.
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西武新宿線の発車メロディがマルコメのCMソングとなる。
The Tokyo Metro Tozai Line introduced departure melodies.
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東京メトロ東西線に発車メロディを導入。
In 2019, JR East stations were outsourced.
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（令和元年）：JR東日本の駅が業務委託化。
Seibu Railway began using platform doors on its Line 3.
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西武鉄道の3番線でホームドアの使用を開始。
The Midori no Madoguchi service ended operations.
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みどりの窓口の営業を終了。
Introduced ticket vending machines with voice guidance.
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話せる指定席券売機を導入。
JR East started the Eki-net Q-Chike service.
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JR東日本でえきねっとQチケのサービスを開始。
Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
マルコメ東京支店の最寄り駅。下りホームと上りホームで編曲が異なっている。
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Beyond the Metropolis
Both the JR East and Seibu platforms play an arrangement of the Astro Boy theme song. Tezuka Productions, run by the character's creator Osamu Tezuka, was located near the station, and Astro Boy's in-story birthdate is set in the area. JR East launched its version on April 7, 2003 to mark that date; Seibu later added its own arrangement.
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