The Tōyoko Line (東横線 ,Tō-Yoko Sen?) is a major commuter railway line connecting Tokyo (Shibuya) to Yokohama of the private Tokyu Corporation. The name

The first section of the line from Tamagawa to Kanagawa (separate from the present Kanagawa of Keikyū) opened on February 14, 1926. The line was extended incrementally until the entire length from Shibuya to Sakuragichō in Yokohama was opened on March 31, 1932. On August 29, 1964, through service to the Tokyo Metro Hibiya subway line started.

On January 30, 2004, the section of Yokohama to Sakuragichō was abandoned, and two days later on February 1, replaced with a line slightly more closer to the sea side, Minatomirai Line.

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Many train stops are announced in both English and Japanese. Announcements also provide connecting line information.
Ticketing machines can switch between English and Japanese user interfaces.
Train stations are signposted in English and Japanese (in kanji and hiragana). There are also numerous signs in Chinese (in simplified characters) and Korean.
Train stations are now also consecutively numbered on each color-coded line, allowing even non-English speakers to be able to commute without necessarily knowing the name of the station. For example, Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line is also signposted as M-08 with the familiar red colored circle surrounding it; even if a commuter could not read the English or Japanese station names on signs or maps, he or she could simply look for the red line and then find the appropriately numbered station on said line.
Many stations are also designed to help blind people as railings often have Braille at their base.

Tokyo Metro stations began accepting PASMO contactless cards in March 2007.

The Tokyo Metro is extremely punctual and has regular trains arriving less than five minutes apart most of the day and night. It does not however run 24 hours a day. Lines tend to stop service between midnight and 1:00am and commence again approximately 5:00am.

Tokyo Metro indicated in its public share offering that it would cease construction once the Fukutoshin Line is completed. Some therefore expect that the line will be the final expansion to the Tokyo Metro network, although several lines such as the Hanzōmon Line have yet to be completed as planned.

(東京地下鉄株式会社 ,Tōkyō Chikatetsu Kabushiki-gaisha?)

Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. (東京地下鉄株式会社 ,Tōkyō Chikatetsu Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a private company jointly owned by the Japanese government and the Tokyo metropolitan government.

It replaced the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (帝都高速度交通営団 ,Teito Kōsokudo Kōtsū Eidan?), commonly known as Eidan or TRTA, on April 1, 2004. TRTA was administered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and jointly funded by the national and metropolitan governments. It was formed in 1941, although its oldest lines date back to 1927.

The other metro operator in Tokyo is the government of Tokyo, through the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, which operates the Toei system. Metro and Toei trains form completely separate networks. While users of prepaid rail passes can freely interchange between the two networks, regular ticket holders must purchase a second ticket, or a special transfer ticket, to change from a Toei line to a Metro line and vice versa.

Much effort is made to make the system accessible to non-Japanese speaking users: