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Coordinates: 35°42′04″N 139°42′01″E / 35.701063°N 139.700228°E / 35.701063; 139.700228

Shin-Ōkubo Station 新大久保駅
Shin-Ōkubo from the outside
Location
Prefecture	Tokyo (See other stations in Tokyo)
Ward	Shinjuku
History
Year opened	1914
Rail services
Operator(s)	East Japan Railway Company
Line(s)	Yamanote Line

Shin-Ōkubo Station (新大久保駅, Shin-Ōkubo-eki ^?) is a railway station located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Opened on November 15, 1914, it is close to the large local Korea Town. Shin-Ōkubo station has only one exit.

Less than a kilometer north of the sprawling Shinjuku station, Shin-Ōkubo Station is located approximately 5 minutes walk from Shinjuku's famous Kabukichō district. It is also about a 3-minute walk from Ōkubo station on the Chūō-Sōbu Line.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Yamanote Line

Adjacent stations

Incidents

On 26 January 2001, a 47-year-old photographer from Yokohama and a 26-year-old Korean student died at the station when they were hit by a Yamanote Line train while trying to save a drunken Japanese man who had fallen off the platform onto the tracks and also killed in the accident.^[1] The Korean student's life story formed the basis for the film 26 Years Diary, released in 2007 in Japan and in 2008 in Korea.

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