東京神田「幻の駅」重新活化成消閒點

Last month the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:　

「幻の駅」と呼ばれている東京・神田の旧国鉄万世橋駅が商業施設として復活する。

　ＪＲ東日本が３日発表した再整備計画で明らかにしたもので、中央線の高架橋に今も残るホームに、カフェやデッキを整備する。来夏の開業を目指す。

　万世橋駅は、中央線の御茶ノ水―神田駅間にあり、明治末期の１９１２年に中央線の一大ターミナル駅として誕生した。駅舎は東京駅と同じ辰野金吾設計の赤レンガ舎。２３年の関東大震災で焼失、駅舎は再建されたが、乗降客数の減少で４３年に営業を終えた。

　その後、駅舎は解体されたが、今も赤レンガ造りの高架橋の上にはホームがあり、階段も当時のまま残されている。ホームの上にはカフェとデッキを作り、高架橋下にはテナントなどが入るという。同社は「当時の雰囲気を生かした憩いの場にしたい」としている。

（2012年7月3日21時25分 読売新聞）

(試譯文)

The Mansei Bridge Station at Kanda of Tokyo currently being called "the phantom station" would be revived as a commercial establishment.

On the third (July) the JR East Japan announced their re-development plan to clarify that cafe and deck would be installed to the platform which still remained in the elevated bridge of Chuo Line. Commencement of business was aimed at the next summer.

The Mansei Bridge Station was in between the Ochanomizu and the Kanda Station of the Chuo Line; it was born as a major terminal station on the Chuo Line in 1912 which was in the late Meiji period. The station building was a red brick house with the same Kingo Tatsuno design as the Tokyo Station. Although it was burned down during the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, the station house was rebuilt; due to a decrease in the number of passenger the business was closed in 1943.

Then, while the station building was disassembled, the platform was still there on the redbrick elevated bridge; stairs were also left behind untouched since that time. Cafe and deck would be added to the platform and it was said that tenants etc. would move in under the elevated bridge. The same company said that "we would like to recreate the atmosphere of those days and to use the place for relaxation."

Probably this location will become popular among the locals when business starts.