Shijō-mae

Shijō-mae Station (市場前駅, Shijōmae-eki ) is a train station on the Yurikamome Line, in Kōtō , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan . Its station number is U-14. The station opened on 27 March 2006. It is one of the least-used train stations in Tokyo, with an average of 22 daily passengers in 2011; [1] as of 2013 all of the surrounding area is either vacant or under construction. The station's name literally means "In Front of the Marketplace," referring to a plan to move the Tokyo Central Wholesale Market (more popularly known as the Tsukiji fish market ) to an adjacent site. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government originally planned to complete this move by 2012, but Democratic Party of Japan legislators cut the budget for the move in 2010; the budget was reinstated in 2012 and the move is currently expected to be complete by 2018. Shijo-mae and the neighboring Shin-Toyosu Station are bypassed by trains during the busy Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival.