Is there a comprehensive map of the Shinjuku station in Tokyo?

Is there a comprehensive map of the Shinjuku station in Tokyo?

1/4/2019 3:39:14 AM

The trouble with Shinjuku Station is that it’s split between four different companies (JR, Metro, Odakyu, Keio), so there’s no one official map that covers the lot, and the very three-dimensional layout of the station means that flat/2D maps don’t come close to conveying the full complexity of this beast. This rather amazing hand-drawn 3D sketch is the best I’ve seen, although it’s all Japanese:

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(courtesy Tomoyuki Tanaka, high-res B&W version here)

Official maps for each train company, covering only their respective parts in both 3D/structural (立体図) and flat format (平面図) below:

  1. JR East, red in the diagram above
  2. Keio (PDF), green
  3. Odakyu, blue
  4. Tokyo Metro, pink

Note that the colors apply only to paid/ticketed spaces in the stations, all the purple parts are free to cross without a ticket.

Bonus: a wooden model of Shinjuku station’s pathways, built by a very determined group at Showa Women’s University.

12/31/2018 1:54:41 AM

Building off of Kent’s answer I was able to download the Yahoo maps and make a single image from them using https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoom.sh .

In particular, I used this command:

./dezoom.sh -x 931147 -y 111430 -X 931216 -Y 111397 "https://map.c.yimg.jp/m?mode=map-b1&r=1&x=%X&y=%Y&z=21&size=362"

The result is a 25,340 x 12,308 image. It’s a 20.2MB JPEG. Not really sure the best way to share it.

Here’s a screenshot of the JPEG when reduced down to a size small enough to fit on my screen:

Shinjuku

Here’s that same image with some annotations:

Shinjuku Annotated

It’d be neat to have an above ground map for the same area to see what streets the exits correspond to.

8/18/2015 11:36:02 PM

The linked JR map in the question is one of the easier sections of the station to navigate, in my opinion. I’ve gotten “re-oriented” in the underground areas more times than I care to admit, and it is sometimes easiest to just go outside, find a landmark, and walk in that direction.

There is a map of all the platforms (JR, Keio, Odakyu, Toei, and Metro) here
but, I don’t know of any comprehensive map of the non-platform areas.

I just found a nice set of underground maps at Yahoo Japan. They are all in Japanese, though. The “Subnade” is the third map on that page, while other areas under Shinjuku are in maps #4-7.

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