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Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line Service Suspended Due to Power Outage

Service on the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line has been suspended due to a power outage. At JR Yurakucho Station, where only the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line stop, the automatic ticket gates remain closed.=January 16,2026,Tokyo

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Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line Service Suspended Due to Power Outage

Service on the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line has been suspended due to a power outage. At JR Yurakucho Station, where only the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line stop, the automatic ticket gates remain closed.=January 16,2026,Tokyo

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Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line Service Suspended Due to Power Outage

Service on the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line has been suspended due to a power outage. At JR Yurakucho Station, where only the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line stop, the automatic ticket gates remain closed.=January 16,2026,Tokyo

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

A man (R) hands out copies of a newspaper's extra edition at Tokyo's JR Yurakucho station on June 3, 2025, following the death of Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima. The former third baseman, who led the Yomiuri Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Baseball: Ohtani wins NL MVP

People grab copies of an extra edition of the Iwate Nippon daily newspaper near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2024, after Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani won Major League Baseball's National League MVP award for 2024. Ohtani is from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate.

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Baseball: Ohtani wins NL MVP

People grab copies of an extra edition of the Iwate Nippon daily newspaper near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2024, after Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani won Major League Baseball's National League MVP award for 2024. Ohtani is from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate.

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Baseball: Ohtani wins NL MVP

People grab copies of an extra edition of the Iwate Nippon daily newspaper near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2024, after Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani won Major League Baseball's National League MVP award for 2024. Ohtani is from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate.

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Baseball: Ohtani wins NL MVP

People grab copies of an extra edition of the Iwate Nippon daily newspaper near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2024, after Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani won Major League Baseball's National League MVP award for 2024. Ohtani is from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate.

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Old stores, new arrivals slug it out in Ginza shopping area

TOKYO, Japan - The 21-story Yurakucho ITOCiA shopping-office complex, under construction in front of JR Yurakucho Station, will open Oct. 12. Marui Co.'s Ginza outlet will be located on the first to eighth floors.

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Tokyo police to install digital sign boards

TOKYO, Japan - The Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo, which has decided to digitize its announcements such as wanted notices, starts a trial posting of a digital board at a "koban" (police box) near Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on March 7, 2014.

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Police, fire authorities examine fire site in central Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen line runs on Jan. 4, 2014, by the site near the JR Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo where the previous day a fire caused bullet train service to be suspended for about five hours.

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Fire near Shinkansen track

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bullet train of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line passing by a fire that broke out near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 3, 2014. Some operations on the Shinkansen line were later suspended for more than five hours due to the fire.

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Fire near Shinkansen track

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bullet train of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line passing by a fire that broke out near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 3, 2014. Some operations on the Shinkansen line were later suspended for more than five hours due to the fire.

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Lumine shopping complex

TOKYO, Japan - Women cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony for the Yurakucho branch of Lumine Co., a shopping complex chain operator affiliated with East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Oct. 28, 2011. The new Lumine store represents the first major push by the operator to do business outside JR East station buildings.

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Lumine shopping complex

TOKYO, Japan - A woman cuts the ribbon during the opening ceremony for the Yurakucho branch of Lumine Co., a shopping complex chain operator affiliated with East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Oct. 28, 2011. The new Lumine store represents the first major push by the operator to do business outside JR East station buildings.

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Lumine shopping complex

TOKYO, Japan - Customers enter the Yurakucho branch of Lumine Co., a shopping complex chain operator affiliated with East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Oct. 28, 2011, its opening day. The new Lumine store represents the first major push by the operator to do business outside JR East station buildings.

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PM Kan takes to streets as DPJ leadership vote nears

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2010, ahead of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan leadership election on Sept. 14, 2010. Kan called for party unity and alluded to his opponent former DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's wheeling-and-dealing style of politics.

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PM Kan takes to streets as DPJ leadership vote nears

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) speaks in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo with government revitalization minister Renho (L) and welfare minister Akira Nagatsuma (R) on Sept. 11, 2010, ahead of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan leadership election on Sept. 14, 2010. Kan called for party unity and alluded to his opponent former DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's wheeling-and-dealing style of politics.

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Actress Mihara debuts as LDP candidate in upper house poll

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Junko Mihara speaks in front of Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo on June 24, 2010, as she is running as a candidate of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party for the July 11 House of Councillors election. Official campaigning got under way for the upper house the same day.

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Old Yamanote Line train replica marks line's centennial

TOKYO, Japan - A replica of an old train on the Yamanote Line arrives at JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2009, as East Japan Railway Co. began running it to commemorate the centennial of naming the Tokyo line. The dark brown train, which resembles the type of train used until around 50 years ago, will run on the Yamanote Line through Dec. 4.

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Yurakucho, the new shoppers' paradise in downtown Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yurakucho, the once drab adjunct to the ritzy Ginza shopping district in downtown Tokyo, is now emerging as a shoppers' paradise rivaling the best in town. Opposite the trendy entrance to JR Yurakucho station, across a square with a concentric design, stands the newly opened 21-story ITOCiA complex, which houses the Marui department store on the first to eighth floors. The ITOCiA complex provides office space on upper floors and restaurants and a movie theater in an annex. Popular Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is located in the basement level. The 12-story Marronnier Gate shopping mall opened Sept. 1 near the ITOCiA complex and the luxury Peninsula Tokyo hotel also opened the same day.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election draws Ishihara, 13 other candidates

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd the thoroughfare near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo to listen to candidates on March 22 as the campaigning begins for the April 8 Tokyo gubernatorial election. A total of 14 candidates including incumbent Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano officially filed for candidacy.

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Extra edition of newspaper on Ohtani

Chimao Azumane, president of Iwate Nippo newspaper, hands out copies of its extra edition in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2022, after Los Angeles Angels pitcher and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani earned his 10th win of the season in a game against the Oakland Athletics in Oakland, California, the previous day, making him the first player with double-digit home runs as a batter and wins as a pitcher in a single Major League Baseball season since Hall of Famer Babe Ruth in 1918. Ohtani hails from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate where the newspaper is circulated.

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Extra edition of newspaper on Ohtani

Children holds copies of an extra edition of Iwate Nippo newspaper, circulated in Iwate Prefecture, in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2022, after Los Angeles Angels pitcher and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani earned his 10th win of the season in a game against the Oakland Athletics in Oakland, California, the previous day, making him the first player with double-digit home runs as a batter and wins as a pitcher in a single Major League Baseball season since Hall of Famer Babe Ruth in 1918. Ohtani hails from the northeastern Japan prefecture.

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Extra edition of newspaper on Ohtani

Chimao Azumane, president of Iwate Nippo newspaper, hands out copies of its extra edition in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2022, after Los Angeles Angels pitcher and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani earned his 10th win of the season in a game against the Oakland Athletics in Oakland, California, the previous day, making him the first player with double-digit home runs as a batter and wins as a pitcher in a single Major League Baseball season since Hall of Famer Babe Ruth in 1918. Ohtani hails from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate where the newspaper is circulated.

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Campaigning for Japanese upper house election

People listen to a politician making a stump speech in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on June 15, 2022, ahead of the House of Councillors election on July 10.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election draws Ishihara, 13 other candidates

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd the thoroughfare near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo to listen to candidates on March 22 as the campaigning begins for the April 8 Tokyo gubernatorial election. A total of 14 candidates including incumbent Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano officially filed for candidacy. (Kyodo)

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Newspaper president distributes extras in thanks for post-quake aid

Iwate Nippo Co. President Chimao Azumane distributes an extra edition of the northeastern Japanese daily expressing its gratitude for nationwide aid after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in front of Tokyo's JR Yurakucho Station on March 11, 2015, on the fourth anniversary of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newspaper staffer hands out extras in thanks for aid for 2011 quake

A staffer of Iwate Nippo Co. (R) hands out an extra edition in front of Tokyo's JR Yurakucho Station on March 11, 2015, on the fourth anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami expressing the local daily's appreciation for reconstruction assistance given to the northeastern Japan region devastated by the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Old Yamanote Line train replica marks line's centennial

TOKYO, Japan - A replica of an old train on the Yamanote Line arrives at JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2009, as East Japan Railway Co. began running it to commemorate the centennial of naming the Tokyo line. The dark brown train, which resembles the type of train used until around 50 years ago, will run on the Yamanote Line through Dec. 4. (Kyodo)

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Yurakucho, the new shoppers' paradise in downtown Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yurakucho, the once drab adjunct to the ritzy Ginza shopping district in downtown Tokyo, is now emerging as a shoppers' paradise rivaling the best in town. Opposite the trendy entrance to JR Yurakucho station, across a square with a concentric design, stands the newly opened 21-story ITOCiA complex, which houses the Marui department store on the first to eighth floors. The ITOCiA complex provides office space on upper floors and restaurants and a movie theater in an annex. Popular Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is located in the basement level. The 12-story Marronnier Gate shopping mall opened Sept. 1 near the ITOCiA complex and the luxury Peninsula Tokyo hotel also opened the same day. (Kyodo)

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PM Kan takes to streets as DPJ leadership vote nears

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2010, ahead of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan leadership election on Sept. 14, 2010. Kan called for party unity and alluded to his opponent former DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's wheeling-and-dealing style of politics. (Kyodo)

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PM Kan takes to streets as DPJ leadership vote nears

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) speaks in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo with government revitalization minister Renho (L) and welfare minister Akira Nagatsuma (R) on Sept. 11, 2010, ahead of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan leadership election on Sept. 14, 2010. Kan called for party unity and alluded to his opponent former DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's wheeling-and-dealing style of politics. (Kyodo)

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Actress Mihara debuts as LDP candidate in upper house poll

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Junko Mihara speaks in front of Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo on June 24, 2010, as she is running as a candidate of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party for the July 11 House of Councillors election. Official campaigning got under way for the upper house the same day. (Kyodo)

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Lumine shopping complex

TOKYO, Japan - Customers enter the Yurakucho branch of Lumine Co., a shopping complex chain operator affiliated with East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Oct. 28, 2011, its opening day. The new Lumine store represents the first major push by the operator to do business outside JR East station buildings. (Kyodo)

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Lumine shopping complex

TOKYO, Japan - A woman cuts the ribbon during the opening ceremony for the Yurakucho branch of Lumine Co., a shopping complex chain operator affiliated with East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Oct. 28, 2011. The new Lumine store represents the first major push by the operator to do business outside JR East station buildings. (Kyodo)

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Lumine shopping complex

TOKYO, Japan - Women cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony for the Yurakucho branch of Lumine Co., a shopping complex chain operator affiliated with East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Oct. 28, 2011. The new Lumine store represents the first major push by the operator to do business outside JR East station buildings. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Far fewer people than usual walk near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on May 17, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Fewer pedestrians than usual are seen near JR Yurakucho Station in this photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 8, 2020, a day after a state of emergency was declared for Tokyo and six other prefectures due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Fewer people than usual are seen near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on April 8, 2020, a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency in the capital and six other prefectures in response to a recent surge in coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Commuters head to work in front of JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on April 8, 2020, a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency in the capital and six other prefectures in response to a recent surge in coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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End of Japanese Heisei era

People walk before a large screen showing a message reading "Congratulations Reiwa, Thank you Heisei," near Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on April 29, 2019, a day before Emperor Akihito's abdication that ends the Japanese era of Heisei. The era of Reiwa starts May 1 when Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the throne. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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End of Japanese Heisei era

People walk before a large screen showing a message reading "Congratulations Reiwa, Thank you Heisei," near Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on April 29, 2019, a day before Emperor Akihito's abdication that ends the Japanese era of Heisei. The era of Reiwa starts May 1 when Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the throne. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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End of Japanese Heisei era

People walk before a large screen showing a message reading "Congratulations Reiwa, Thank you Heisei," near Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on April 29, 2019, a day before Emperor Akihito's abdication that ends the Japanese era of Heisei. The era of Reiwa starts May 1 when Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the throne. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo