Asakusabashi Station (浅草橋駅, Asakusabashi-eki) is a subway station on the Toei Asakusa Line operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, and a railway station above ground level on the Chūō-Sōbu Line at the same site operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Underground, the Asakusa Line station has an island platform between the two tracks.

[citation needed] On November 28, 1985, Asakusabashi Station was firebombed by masked members of the Revolutionary Communist League, National Committee,[1] who claimed that this action, as well as other acts of sabotage committed across several prefectures the same day were to support the 24-hour strike by the labour union Doro-Chiba protesting against the impending privatisation of Japanese National Railways (JNR).

[2][3] This incident did not affect operations on the Toei Asakusa Line as the underground platforms were not targeted.

This article incorporates material from 浅草橋駅 (Asakusabashi-eki) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on December 15, 2007.