Tokyo Metro (first subway in Asia)
Metro de Tokio (primer metro de Asia)
- Date
- 30 de diciembre de 1927 · confidence high
- Place
- Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Tokyo Underground Railway Company (Noritsugu Hayakawa)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A 2.2 km line between Asakusa and Ueno (now the Ginza Line) opened on 30 December 1927 at 600 V third-rail, the first metro in Asia. Hayakawa conceived it after visiting London, and it was privately financed.
Osaka opened in 1933 and Nagoya in 1957; Tokyo's was the first on the Asian continent.
What it led to
- one of the busiest metro networks in the world
- real-estate development around stations
- a model for later Asian metros: Osaka, Seoul, Beijing